Mar 4:1-9 | ESV | STEP | Again he began to teach beside the sea . And a very large crowd gathered about him , so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea , and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land .

Mark 4:1-9

The Parable of the Sower

1 Again ^ahe began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, ^bso 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 ^che was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 “Listen! ^dBehold, a 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 ^ewhen the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, ^fit withered away. 7 Other seed fell among ^gthorns, 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 ^ha hundredfold.” 9 And he said, ⁱ“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”