Mark 4:1–9
1Again 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.↗
2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,↗
3“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.↗
4As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.↗
5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.↗
6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.↗
7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.↗
8Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”↗
9He said,“Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”↗
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