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          DASV: Mark 4    

1 Again Jesus began to teach by the seaside. Now there was
gathered around him such a very great crowd, that he entered
into a boat, and sat there while all the crowd was on the shore.
2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching
said to them,
3 "Listen. A sower went out to sow seed.
4 It came to pass, as he sowed, some seed fell on the path,
and the birds came and devoured it.
5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much
dirt, and immediately it sprang up, because the dirt was not deep.
6 When the sun rose, it was scorched, and because it had no root,
it withered away.
7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up,
and choked it, and it produced no fruit.
8 Other seed fell on the good ground, and produced fruit, growing
up and flourishing, and it brought forth thirty times, sixty
times, and some a hundred times."
9 He said, "The one who has ears to hear, let him hear."

10 When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him
about the parables.
11 He explained to them, "Unto you the mystery of the kingdom
of God is given, but to those who are outside, all things are
done in parables.
12 So that seeing, they may see, and not perceive, and hearing,
they may hear, and not understand; so that they might turn
and be forgiven."
13 He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable?
How then will you understand all the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 These are the ones on the path, where the word is sown.
Whenever they hear it immediately Satan comes, and takes away
the word which has been sown in them.
16 These are the ones that are sown upon the rocky soil, who,
when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
17 But they have no root in themselves, and so last only for a
brief while. When tribulation or persecution arises because
of the word, immediately they fall away.
18 Others are the ones that are sown among the thorns. These are
the ones who hear the word,
19 and the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
and the desires for other things come in, and choke the word,
and it becomes unfruitful.
20 Then there are the ones that were sown upon the good ground.
They hear the word, and accept it, and produce fruit, some
thirty times, and sixty times, and a hundred times."

21 He said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put under the bushel
basket, or under the bed, and not to be put on the lamp stand?
22 For there is nothing hid, that will not be revealed, neither
was anything made secret, that will not eventually come to light.
23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

24 Then he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear. For
with what measure you use it will be measured to you; and
even more will be given to you.
25 For he that has, to him will be given. He that does not have,
from him will be taken away even what he has."
26 He continued, "The kingdom of God is like someone casting
seed upon the ground.
27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed springs up
and grows, but he does not know how.
28 The ground produces fruit by itself; first the blade, then
the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he uses the sickle,
because the harvest is come."
30 He said, "To what may we liken the kingdom of God? What
parable shall we use to describe it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown
on the ground, though it is the smallest of the garden seeds
that are on the earth,
32 yet when it is sown it grows up, and becomes greater than
all the garden plants, and puts out great branches; so that
even the birds of the heaven can lodge under its shadow."

33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
were able to hear it.
34 Without a parable he did not speak to them. But privately
he expounded all things to his own disciples.
35 On that day, when evening was come, he said to them, "Let us
go over to the other side of the lake."
36 Leaving the crowd, they took him with them, just as he was,
in the boat. There were other boats with him.
37 Then there arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat on
the boat, so much so that the boat was being swamped.
38 But Jesus was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. They
woke him up, and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care
that we perish?"
39 Then he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
"Quiet down, be still." The wind ceased, and there was a
great calm.
40 Then he said to them, "Why are you fearful? Do you not
yet have faith?"
41 They were petrified, and said one to another, "Who is
this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

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