Mark 4

1Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.Cross-references: Matt 13:1 · Mark 2:13 · Mark 3:7 · Luke 5:1 · Luke 8:4

2He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,Cross-references: Ps 49:4 · Ps 78:2 · Matt 7:28 · Matt 13:3 · Matt 13:10 · Matt 13:34 · +6 more

3“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.Cross-references: Deut 4:1 · Ps 34:11 · Ps 45:10 · Prov 7:24 · Prov 8:32 · Eccl 11:6 · +21 more

4As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.Cross-references: Gen 15:11 · Matt 13:4 · Matt 13:19 · Mark 4:15 · Luke 8:5 · Luke 8:12

5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.Cross-references: Ezek 11:19 · Ezek 36:26 · Hos 10:12 · Amos 6:12 · Matt 13:5 · Matt 13:20 · +3 more

6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.Cross-references: Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:13 · Song 1:6 · Isa 25:4 · Jer 17:5 · Jonah 4:8 · +6 more

7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.Cross-references: Gen 3:17 · Jer 4:3 · Matt 13:7 · Matt 13:22 · Mark 4:18 · Luke 8:7 · +5 more

8Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 23:29 · Matt 13:8 · Matt 13:23 · Mark 4:20 · +12 more

9He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”Cross-references: Matt 11:15 · Matt 13:9 · Matt 15:10 · Mark 4:3 · Mark 4:23 · Mark 7:14 · +4 more

10When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.Cross-references: Prov 13:20 · Matt 13:10 · Matt 13:36 · Mark 4:34 · Mark 7:17 · Luke 8:9

11He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,Cross-references: Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 13:16 · Matt 16:17 · Luke 8:10 · Luke 10:21 · +11 more

12that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 44:18 · Jer 5:21 · Jer 31:18 · Ezek 12:2 · +9 more

13He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?Cross-references: Matt 13:18 · Matt 13:51 · Matt 15:15 · Matt 16:8 · Mark 7:17 · Luke 8:11 · +4 more

14The farmer sows the word.Cross-references: Isa 32:20 · Matt 13:19 · Matt 13:37 · Mark 2:2 · Mark 4:3 · Luke 1:2 · +4 more

15The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · Job 1:6 · Isa 53:1 · Zech 3:1 · Matt 4:10 · Matt 13:19 · +20 more

16These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.Cross-references: Ezek 33:31 · Matt 8:19 · Matt 13:20 · Mark 6:20 · Mark 10:17 · Luke 8:13 · +5 more

17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.Cross-references: Job 19:28 · Job 27:8 · Matt 11:6 · Matt 12:31 · Matt 13:21 · Matt 24:9 · +15 more

18Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,Cross-references: Jer 4:3 · Matt 13:22 · Mark 4:7 · Luke 8:14

19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.Cross-references: Prov 23:5 · Eccl 4:8 · Eccl 5:10 · Isa 5:2 · Isa 5:4 · Matt 3:10 · +16 more

20Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Matt 13:23 · Mark 4:8 · Luke 8:15 · John 15:4 · John 15:16 · +6 more

21He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?Cross-references: Isa 60:1 · Matt 5:15 · Luke 8:16 · Luke 11:33 · 1Cor 12:7 · Eph 5:3 · +1 more

22For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light.Cross-references: Ps 40:9 · Ps 78:2 · Eccl 12:14 · Matt 10:26 · Luke 8:17 · Luke 12:2 · +4 more

23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”Cross-references: Matt 11:15 · Mark 4:9 · Rev 2:7 · Rev 2:11 · Rev 2:17 · Rev 2:29

24He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear.Cross-references: Prov 19:27 · Isa 55:3 · Matt 7:2 · Mark 9:7 · Luke 6:37 · Luke 8:18 · +9 more

25For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”Cross-references: Matt 13:12 · Matt 25:28 · Luke 8:18 · Luke 16:9 · Luke 19:24 · John 15:2

26He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,Cross-references: Prov 11:18 · Eccl 11:4 · Eccl 11:6 · Isa 28:24 · Isa 32:20 · Matt 3:2 · +16 more

27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.Cross-references: Eccl 8:17 · Eccl 11:5 · John 3:7 · 1Cor 15:37 · 2Thess 1:3 · 2Pet 3:18

28For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.Cross-references: Gen 1:11 · Gen 2:4 · Gen 2:9 · Gen 4:11 · Ps 1:3 · Ps 92:13 · +11 more

29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”Cross-references: Job 5:26 · Isa 57:1 · Joel 3:13 · Matt 13:30 · Matt 13:40 · 2Tim 4:7 · +1 more

30He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?Cross-references: Lam 2:13 · Matt 11:16 · Matt 13:24 · Matt 13:31 · Luke 13:18

31It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Ps 72:16 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 53:2 · +21 more

32yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”Cross-references: Ps 80:9 · Ps 91:1 · Prov 4:18 · Song 2:3 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 32:2 · +4 more

33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.Cross-references: Matt 13:34 · John 16:12 · 1Cor 3:1 · Heb 5:11

34Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.Cross-references: Matt 13:36 · Matt 15:15 · Mark 4:10 · Mark 7:17 · Luke 8:9 · Luke 24:27 · +2 more

35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”Cross-references: Matt 8:18 · Matt 8:23 · Matt 14:22 · Mark 5:21 · Mark 6:45 · Mark 8:13 · +5 more

36Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.Cross-references: Mark 3:9 · Mark 4:1 · Mark 5:2 · Mark 5:21

37A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.Cross-references: Job 1:12 · Job 1:19 · Ps 107:23 · Jonah 1:4 · Matt 8:23 · Luke 8:22 · +3 more

38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:27 · Job 8:5 · Ps 10:1 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 44:23 · Ps 77:7 · +13 more

39He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.Cross-references: Ex 14:16 · Ex 14:22 · Ex 14:28 · Job 38:11 · Ps 29:10 · Ps 65:7 · +11 more

40He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”Cross-references: Ps 46:1 · Isa 42:3 · Isa 43:2 · Matt 6:30 · Matt 8:26 · Matt 14:31 · +3 more

41They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”Cross-references: 1Sam 12:18 · 1Sam 12:24 · Job 38:11 · Ps 89:7 · Jonah 1:9 · Jonah 1:15 · +9 more