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Mark 4 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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Parable of the Sower and Soils

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:1 - He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:2 - And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:3 - “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:4 - as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:5 - “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.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:6 - “And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:7 - “Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:8 - “Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:9 - And He was saying, “He who has ears to hear, [fn]let him hear.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:10 - As soon as He was alone, [fn]His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:11 - And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:12 - so that WHILE SEEING, THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND WHILE HEARING, THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN.”

Explanation

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:13 - And He *said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables?
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:14 - “The sower sows the word.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:15 - “These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:16 - “In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:17 - and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they [fn]fall away.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:18 - “And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:19 - but the worries of the [fn]world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:20 - “And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:21 - And He was saying to them, “A lamp is not brought to be put under a [fn]basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:22 - “For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:23 - “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:24 - And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. [fn]By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:25 - “For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.”

Parable of the Seed

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:26 - And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:27 - and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:28 - “The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:29 - “But when the crop permits, he immediately [fn]puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Parable of the Mustard Seed

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:30 - And He said, “How shall we [fn]picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:31 - It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:32 - yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE [fn]AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:33 - With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:34 - and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Jesus Stills the Sea

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:35 - On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:36 - [fn]Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:37 - And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:38 - Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:39 - And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and [fn]it became perfectly calm.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:40 - And He said to them, “Why are you [fn]afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:41 - They became very much afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
NASB95 Footnotes
Or, hear!; or listen!
Literally: those about Him
Literally: are caused to stumble
Or, age
Or, peck-measure
Literally: By what measure you measure
Literally: sends forth
Literally: compare
Or, sky
Or, Sending away
Literally: a great calm occurred
Or, cowardly
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