Mar 4:1-12 | NASB2020 | STEP | Again He began to teach by the sea . And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat on the sea and sat down ; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land .

Mark 4:1-12

Parable of the Sower and Soils

1 Again ^aHe began to teach ^bby the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that ^cHe got into a boat on the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land. 2 And He was teaching them many things in ^dparables, and was saying to them in His teaching, 3 “Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow; 4 as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8 Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.” 9 And He was saying, “ ^eHe who has ears to hear, ^{▼▼Or hear! or listen!}let him hear.”

10 As soon as He was alone, ^{▼▼Lit those about Him}His followers, along with the twelve disciples, began asking Him about the parables. 11 And He was saying to them, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but for ^hthose who are outside, everything comes ⁱin parables, 12 so that ^jwhile seeing they may see, and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear, and not understand, otherwise they might return and it would be forgiven them.”