Gospel According To Mark

Gospel According to Mark (MLV)

Mark 4)

(Mk 4:1-2 & Mt 13:1-3 & Lk 8:4) Sea of Galilee

(Mk 4:3-25 & Mt 13:3-23 & Lk 8:5-18)

^4:1 And again he began to teach by the sea side. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so-that he having entered into the boat, sat in the sea; and all the crowd were next to the sea upon the land.^4:2 And he taught them many things in parables and said to them in his teaching,^4:3 Listen: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:^4:4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the way side and the birds of the heavens came and devoured it.^4:5 And other fell on the rocky areas, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no deepness of earth:^4:6 and when the sun had arisen, it was scorched; and it withered away because it had no root.^4:7 And other fell among the thorns and the thorns shot up and choked it and it gave no fruit.^4:8 And others fell into the good ground and gave fruit, shooting up and growing; and gave forth, one thirty times and one sixty times and one a hundred times as much. ^4:9 And he said, Who has ears to hear, let him hear.

^4:10 And when he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked about the parable.^4:11 And he said to them, to you* have been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables:^4:12 that 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.

^4:13 And he says to them, Do you* not know this parable? And how will you* know all the parables?^4:14 The sower sows the word.^4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in their hearts.

^4:16 And similarly these are those who are sown upon the rocky areas, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy;^4:17 and they have no root in themselves, but is temporary. Then, when tribulation or persecution happens because of the word, immediately they stumble.

^4:18 And these are those who are sown among the thorns; these are those who hear the word,^4:19 and the cares of this world and the deception of riches and the lusts concerning all the rest of things entering in, choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.

^4:20 And these are those who were sown upon the good ground; such as hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, one thirty times and one sixty times and one a hundred times.

^4:21 And he said to them, Does a man come with a lamp to place it under the peck container or under the cot and not to place it upon the lamp-stand?^4:22 For* nothing is hidden, unless it should be manifested; nor has anything secret happened, but that* it should come to be manifest.^4:23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.^4:24 And he said to them, See that what you* hear: with what measure you* measure, it will be measured to you*; and to you* who hear more will be added.^4:25 For* whoever has, to him will be given and he who does not have, then what he has will be taken from him.

(Mk 4:26-29)

^4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man cast seed upon the earth;^4:27 and should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.^4:28 For* the earth is bearing fruit of herself; first the blade, then the head, then the full grain in the head.^4:29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.

(Mt 13:24-30)

(Mk 4:30-34 & Mt 13:31-35)

^4:30 And he said, To what shall be similar to the kingdom of God? Or in what parable shall we compare it?^4:31 It is as a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,^4:32 yet when it has been sown, it shoots up and becomes greater than all the herbs and produces great branches; so-that the birds of the heaven are able to nest under the shadow of it.

^4:33 And he spoke the word to them with many such parables, as they were able to hear it;^4:34 and he did not speak to them without a parable: but he explained all things privately to his disciples.

(Mt 13:36-43)

(Mt 13:44-53)

(Mk 4:35-41 & Mt:8:18-27 & Lk 8:22-25) Sea of Galilee

^4:35 And on that day, when it became evening, he says to them, Let us go over to the other side.^4:36 And leaving the crowd, they take him with them, as he was in the boat. But also other boats were with him.^4:37 And a great storm of wind arises and the waves beat into the boat, so-that the boat was already filled.^4:38 And he himself was upon the stern, asleep upon the cushion and they arouse him and say to him, Teacher, Do you not care that we perish?

^4:39 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Be silent, hush. And the wind ceased and there became a great calm.^4:40 And he said to them, Why are you* so fearful? How do you* not have faith?

^4:41 And they feared with a great fear and said to one another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?