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Mark 4:2–9
2 And he began to teachb them many things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching, 3 “Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. 4 And it happened that while he was sowing, ⌊some seed⌋c fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. 7 And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.d 8 And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain,e coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop*—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.f 9 And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”
| b | The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”) |
| c | Literally “some of which” |
| d | Literally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop” |
| e | Literally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop” |
| * | Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation |
| f | The phrase “times as much” is not in the Greek text but is implied |
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