Mark 4 : 1 (NET)
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.
Mark 4 : 2 (NET)
He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them:
Mark 4 : 3 (NET)
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.
Mark 4 : 4 (NET)
And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
Mark 4 : 5 (NET)
Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.
Mark 4 : 6 (NET)
When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.
Mark 4 : 7 (NET)
Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.
Mark 4 : 8 (NET)
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."
Mark 4 : 9 (NET)
And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!"
Mark 4 : 10 (NET)
When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
Mark 4 : 11 (NET)
He said to them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,
Mark 4 : 12 (NET)
so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven."
Mark 4 : 13 (NET)
He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?
Mark 4 : 14 (NET)
The sower sows the word.
Mark 4 : 15 (NET)
These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.
Mark 4 : 16 (NET)
These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.
Mark 4 : 17 (NET)
But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.
Mark 4 : 18 (NET)
Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,
Mark 4 : 19 (NET)
but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.
Mark 4 : 20 (NET)
But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."
Mark 4 : 21 (NET)
He also said to them, "A lamp isn't brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn't it to be placed on a lampstand?
Mark 4 : 22 (NET)
For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.
Mark 4 : 23 (NET)
If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"
Mark 4 : 24 (NET)
And he said to them, "Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.
Mark 4 : 25 (NET)
For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
Mark 4 : 26 (NET)
He also said, "The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.
Mark 4 : 27 (NET)
He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
Mark 4 : 28 (NET)
By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
Mark 4 : 29 (NET)
And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come."
Mark 4 : 30 (NET)
He also asked, "To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?
Mark 4 : 31 (NET)
It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground�
Mark 4 : 32 (NET)
when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade."
Mark 4 : 33 (NET)
So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.
Mark 4 : 34 (NET)
He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.
Mark 4 : 35 (NET)
On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let's go across to the other side of the lake."
Mark 4 : 36 (NET)
So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.
Mark 4 : 37 (NET)
Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.
Mark 4 : 38 (NET)
But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to die?"
Mark 4 : 39 (NET)
So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Calm down!" Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.
Mark 4 : 40 (NET)
And he said to them, "Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?"
Mark 4 : 41 (NET)
They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, "Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!"
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