Verse 2
Mark 4:2
World English Bible
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He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
Original Language Text
greek
καὶ ἐδίδασκεν αὐτοὺς ἐν παραβολαῖς πολλά καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ·
English Translation
And he taught them many things in parables and said to them in his teaching:
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Chapter 4 Context
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Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered in...
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He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
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“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,
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and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds
came and devoured it.
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Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it...
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When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirt...
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He said,
“Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
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He said to them,
“To you is given the mystery of God (Elohim)’s Kingdom, but to those who are outsid...
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that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest pe...
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He said to them,
“Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
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The farmer sows the word.
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The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Sat...
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These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the wor...
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They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because...
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Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
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and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering...
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Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit...
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He said to them,
“Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket
or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a st...
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For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret,...
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If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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He said to them,
“Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to...
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For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be...
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He said,
“God (Elohim)’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t...
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For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
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But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
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He said,
“How will we liken God (Elohim)’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
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It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all...
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yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches,...
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With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everythin...
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On that day, when evening had come, he said to them,
“Let’s go over to the other side.”
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Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were...
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A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
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He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, do...
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He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
“Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there w...
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He said to them,
“Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”
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They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea...
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