Mark 4:10-20

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁰ And when He was alone, those who were around Him, with the twelve, asked Him of the parable.

¹¹ And He said to them, “To you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God. But to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

¹² “So that those seeing may see, and not discern. And those hearing may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should turn, and their sins should be forgiven them.”

¹³ Again He said to them, “Do you not perceive this parable? How then shall you understand all other parables?

¹⁴ “The sower sows the Word.

¹⁵ “And these are those who receive the seed by the wayside, in whom the Word is sown. But when they have heard it, Satan comes immediately and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts.

¹⁶ “And likewise, those who receive the seed in stony ground are those who (when they have heard the Word) immediately receive it with gladness.

¹⁷ “Yet they have no root in themselves and endure but a time. For when trouble and persecution arise for the word, they fall away immediately.

¹⁸ “Also those who receive the seed among the thorns, are those who hear the Word,

¹⁹ “but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things enter in and choke the Word. And it is unfruitful.

²⁰ “But those who have received seed in good ground, are those who hear the Word and receive it and bring forth fruit - one corn thirty, another sixty, and some a hundred.”