Mar 4:1-9 | 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 .

a Mark 4:1-12: Matt 13:1-15; Luke 8:4-10

e Matt 11:15; Mark 4:23; Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29

Mark 4:1-9

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.”