Mark 4:1-9 ▼

1 And He began to teach again by the sea-side, and there was gathered unto Him a great multitude; so that He went into a ship, and sat on board, and all the people were by the sea, upon the shore.

2 And He taught them many things by similitudes, and said to them in his instruction,

3 hearken, Behold a sower went out to sow:

4 and in sowing, some fell by the way- side, and the birds came and ate it up:

5 and some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth, and it sprang up immediately, because it had not depth of earth;

6 but when the sun rose, it was burnt up, and withered because it had no root:

7 and some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit:

8 and other fell on good ground, and yielded fruit springing up and increasing; and produced some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred- fold.

9 And He said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.