Mark 4:1-11 ▼

1 And He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.

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

3 “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

4 and it happened that as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

5 And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.

6 And after the sun rose, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

7 And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

8 And other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they were yielding a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

9 And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

10 And when He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

11 And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, everything comes in parables,