Mark 4:1-9 ▼

1 And again He began to teach by the sea: and a great multitude is gathered unto Him, so that He having gone into a ship, sat on the sea; and the whole multitude was at the sea on the land.

2 And He was teaching them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said to them,

3 Hear: Behold, a sower went out to sow:

4 and it came to pass while he was sowing, some fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured it.

5 And other fell upon stones, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

6 and when the sun arose, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 And other fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up, and choked it, and it gave no fruit.

8 And other fell in good ground, and springing up and growing, gave fruit, and produced, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

9 And He said, Let the one having ears to hear, hear.