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New Testament
Mark 4:1-20
The Parable of the Sower
41Another time Jesus began to teach by the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the sea. The whole crowd was on the seashore. 2Then he taught them many things in parables. As he taught them, he said, 3“Listen! There was a sower who went out to sow. 4As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up right away because it did not have deep soil. 6When the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it did not have much root, it withered. 7Some seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, so it did not produce fruit. 8Still other seed fell on good ground and yielded fruit, sprouting and growing and producing a crop: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred times as much as was sown.” 9Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
10When Jesus was alone, those who were around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables. 11He said to them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but everything comes in parables to those who are outside, 12so that
“they will certainly see but not perceive,
and they will certainly hear but not understand.
13Then he asked them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand any of the parables? 14The sower sows the word. 15These are the ones along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and immediately takes away the word that was sown in them. 16Some are like the ones sown on rocky ground: as soon as they hear the word, they immediately welcome it with joy. 17Yet since they have no root in themselves, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away. 18Still others are sown among the thorns. These are the ones who hear the word, 19but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth and desires for other things enter in and choke the word, so it becomes unfruitful. 20But the ones sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and produce fruit: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred times as much as was sown.”
Footnotes
- 4:12 Isaiah 6:9-10