Mark 4:2–12

2 Then He taught them many things by parables, band said to them in His teaching:

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds 1of the air came and devoured it. 5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. 7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no 2crop. 8 But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

9 And He said 3to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

10 cBut when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable. 11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to dknow the 4mystery of the kingdom of God; but to ethose who are outside, all things come in parables, 12 so that

f‘Seeing they may see and not perceive,

And hearing they may hear and not understand;

Lest they should turn,

And their sins be forgiven them.’ ”