Mark 4:2-9 ▼

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

3 “Listen! A sower went out to sow seed;

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

5 Other seed fell on rocks where there was not much soil; and immediately a plant sprang up because the soil had no depth.

6 And when the sun came up, the plant was scorched; and because it had no root, it dried up and withered away.

7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

8 And other seed fell into good soil, and as the plants grew and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times [as much as had been sown].”

9 And He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear and heed My words.”