Mark 4:1-9 ▼

1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them:

3 Listen! A sower went out to sow.

4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

5 Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

6 When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

8 But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.|

9 And he said, |Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!|