Mark 4:14–22

¹⁴“The sower sows the word.

¹⁵“And these are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown: when they hear, immediately ^aSatan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

¹⁶“And in a similar way, these are the ones being sown on the rocky places: those who, when hearing the word, immediately receive it with joy;

¹⁷and they have no root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they ¹fall away.

¹⁸“And others are those being sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,

¹⁹but the worries of ^athe ¹world, and the ^bdeceitfulness of riches, and the desires for anything else enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

²⁰“And those are the ones which were sown on the good soil: they who hear the word and accept it and ^aare bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

²¹And He was saying to them, “^aIs a lamp brought to be put under a ¹basket or under a bed? Is it not to be put on the lampstand?

²²“^aFor nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.