Verse 23
Mark 4:23
Young's Literal Translation
23
If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'
Original Language Text
greek
εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω.
English Translation
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Chapter 4 Context
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And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that h...
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and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:
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'Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;
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and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and d...
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and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth,...
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and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;
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and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;
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and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one...
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And he said to them, 'He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'
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And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile,
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and he said to them, 'To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God (Elohim), but...
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that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they m...
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And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?
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He who is sowing doth sow the word;
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and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh...
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'And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear t...
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and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come...
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'And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word,
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and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the o...
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'And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do...
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And he said to them, 'Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch --...
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for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may...
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If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'
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And he said to them, 'Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to yo...
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for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath sha...
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And he said, 'Thus is the reign of God (Elohim): as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,
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and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;
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for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in t...
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and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harv...
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And he said, 'To what may we liken the reign of God (Elohim), or in what simile may we compare it?
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As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds th...
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and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth m...
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And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,
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and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expound...
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And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, 'We may pass over to the other side;'
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and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats al...
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And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now be...
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and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, '...
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And having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, 'Peace, be stilled;' and the wind did...
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and he said to them, 'Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?'
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and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, 'Who, then, is this, that even the wind and t...
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