Mark 4:1-9 ▼

1 Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.

2 Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,

3 "Listen: the sower goes out to sow.

4 As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.

5 Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

6 but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.

7 Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.

8 But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold."

9 "Listen," He added, "every one who has ears to listen with!"