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Mark 4 : 1 - 14
Chapter 4
| 1 | And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea.
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| 2 | Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching:
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| 3 | "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
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| 4 | And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it.
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| 5 | Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.
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| 6 | But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.
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| 7 | And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
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| 8 | But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred."
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| 9 | And He said to them, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
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| 10 | But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.
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| 11 | And He said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,
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| 12 | so that "Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them."'
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| 13 | And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
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| 14 | The sower sows the word.
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