The Good News According to Mark, Chapter 4
{4:1} Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was
gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat
down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. {4:2} He taught
them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, {4:3}
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow, {4:4} and it happened, as
he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured
it. {4:5} Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil,
and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. {4:6}
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root,
it withered away. {4:7} Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns
grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. {4:8} Others fell
into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing.
Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one
hundred times as much."{4:9} He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let
him hear."
{4:10} When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve
asked him about the parables. {4:11} He said to them, "To you is given
the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all
things are done in parables, {4:12} that 'seeing they may see, and not
perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps
they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
{4:13} He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will
you understand all of the parables? {4:14} The farmer sows the word.
{4:15} These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and
when they have heard, immediately Hasatan comes, and takes away the
word which has been sown in them. {4:16} These in like manner are
those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the
word, immediately receive it with joy. {4:17} They have no root in
themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises
because of the word, immediately they stumble. {4:18} Others are those
who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the
word, {4:19} and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of
riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and
it becomes unfruitful. {4:20} These are those which were sown on the
good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit,
some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."
{4:21} He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a
basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a menorah? {4:22} For there is
nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was
anything made secret, but that it should come to light. {4:23} If any
man has ears to hear, let him hear."
{4:24} He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever
measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be
given to you who hear. {4:25} For whoever has, to him will more be
given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that
which he has."
{4:26} He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed
on the [1>]eretz[<1], {4:27} and should sleep and rise night and day,
and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how. {4:28}
For the [2>]eretz[<2] bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then
the full grain in the ear. {4:29} But when the fruit is ripe,
immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
{4:30} He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what
parable will we illustrate it? {4:31} It's like a grain of mustard
seed, which, when it is sown in the [3>]eretz[<3], though it is less
than all the seeds that are on the [4>]eretz[<4], {4:32} yet when it
is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts
out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its
shadow."
{4:33} With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
were able to hear it. {4:34} Without a parable he didn't speak to
them; but privately to his own [5>]talmidim[<5] he explained all
things.
{4:35} On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's
go over to the other side." {4:36} Leaving the multitude, they took
him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were
also with him. {4:37} There arose a great wind storm, and the waves
beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. {4:38}
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him
up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
{4:39} He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Shalom!
Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. {4:40} He said
to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"
{4:41} They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then
is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
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Footnotes:
[1] {4:26} earth
[2] {4:28} earth
[3] {4:31} earth
[4] {4:31} earth
[5] {4:34} disciples
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