Mark 4:1-9
Read Mark 4 in full →The Parable of the Sower
4aAnd He began to teach again bby the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that cHe got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land. 2And He was teaching them many things in aparables, and was saying to them in His teaching, 3“Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow; 4and 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 1crop. 8“And other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they were yielding a 1crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.” 9And He was saying, “aHe who has ears to hear, 1let him hear.”