Mark 4

¹And hee began againe to teache by the sea side, and there gathered vnto him a great multitude, so that hee entred into a shippe, and sate in the sea, and all the people was by the sea side on the land.

²And he taught them many things in parables, and said vnto them in his doctrine,

³Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe.

⁴And it came to passe as he sowed, that some fell by the way side, and the foules of the heauen came, and deuoured it vp.

⁵And some fell on stonie grounde, where it had not much earth, and by and by sprang vp, because it had not depth of earth.

⁶But assoone as ye Sunne was vp, it was burnt vp, and because it had not roote, it withered away.

⁷And some fell among the thornes, and the thornes grewe vp, and choked it, so that it gaue no fruite.

⁸Some againe fell in good grounde, and did yeelde fruite that sprong vp, and grewe, and it brought foorth, some thirtie folde, some sixtie folde, and some an hundreth folde.

⁹Then he said vnto them, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

¹⁰And whe he was alone, they that were about him with the twelue, asked him of ye parable.

¹¹And he saide vnto them, To you it is giuen to knowe the mysterie of the kingdome of God: but vnto them that are without, all thinges bee done in parables,

¹²That they seeing, may see, and not discerne: and they hearing, may heare, and not vnderstand, least at any time they should turne, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.