Mark 4:1-9

The Parable of the Sower

1 Again ¹he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, ²so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

2 And ³he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:

3 "Listen! ⁴A sower went out to sow.

4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.

6 And ⁵when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, ⁶it withered away.

7 Other seed fell among ⁷thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and ⁸a hundredfold."

9 And he said, ⁹"He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

Cross References

• 1. For ver. 1-12, see Matthew 13:1-15; Luke 8:4-10
• 2. [Mark 3:9; Luke 5:1-3]
• 3. ver. 33
• 4. [Isaiah 55:10; Amos 9:13]
• 5. James 1:11
• 6. John 15:6
• 7. Jeremiah 4:3
• 8. ver. 20; Genesis 26:12
• 9. See Matthew 11:15