Mark 4:17-27

17 yet have no rotes in them selves and so endure but a tyme: and anone as trouble and persecucion aryseth for ye wordes sake they fall immediatly.
18 And they that are sowe amoge the thornes are soche as heare ye worde:
19 and ye care of this worlde and ye disseytfulnes of ryches and the lustes of other thinges entre in and choocke ye worde and it is made vnfrutfull.
20 And those that weare sowe in good grounde are they that heare the worde and receave it and bringe forth frute some thirty folde some sixty folde some an hundred folde.
21 And he sayde vnto them: is ye candle lighted to be put vnder a busshell or vnder ye table and not rather to be put on a cadelstick?
22 For there is nothinge so prevy that shall not be opened: nether so secreet but that it shall come abroade.
23 Yf eny man have eares to heare let him heare.
24 And he sayde vnto them: take hede what ye heare. With what measure ye mete with the same shall it be measured vnto you agayne. And vnto you that heare shall more be geve.
25 For vnto him yt hath shall it be geven: and from him that hath not shalbe taken awaye even that he hath.
26 And he sayde: so is the kyngdome of God even as yf a man shuld sowe seed in ye groude
27 and shulde slepe and ryse vp night and daye: and the seede shuld springe and growe vp he not ware.
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