WEB ▾Mark ▾4 ▾Mark 4:1-121Again 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.”10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.11He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,12that ‘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.’”Mark 3Mark 4Mark 5