Mark 4:2-4
The Voice
4 1-2 Jesus went out again to teach by the Sea of Galilee. When the crowd became unmanageable, He climbed aboard a boat and sat down to teach the people listening on the shore by telling them parables. One of His teachings went like this:
Jesus: 3 Listen! A farmer went out and sowed his seed. 4 As he scattered it, one seed fell along the hardened path, and a bird flapped down and snapped it up.
Mark 4:2-4
English Standard Version
2 And (A)he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 “Listen! Behold, (B)a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.
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Mark 4:2-4
King James Version
2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
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