Mark 4:3-9
Lexham English Bible
3 “Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. 4 And it happened that while he was sowing, some seed[a] fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. 7 And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.[b] 8 And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain,[c] coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop[d]—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.[e] 9 And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”
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- Mark 4:4 Literally “some of which”
- Mark 4:7 Literally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop”
- Mark 4:8 Literally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop”
- Mark 4:8 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Mark 4:8 The phrase “times as much” is not in the Greek text but is implied
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