And he began to teach[a] them many things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching, “Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. And it happened that while he was sowing, some seed[b] fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:2 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to teach”)
  2. Mark 4:4 Literally “some of which”