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Text -- Mark 4:1-28 (NET)

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The Parable of the Sower
4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake. 4:2 He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them: 4:3 “Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4:4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. 4:6 When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered. 4:7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain. 4:8 But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.” 4:9 And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”
The Purpose of Parables
4:10 When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 4:11 He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables, 4:12 so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.” 4:13 He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable? 4:14 The sower sows the word. 4:15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them. 4:16 These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy. 4:17 But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away. 4:18 Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word, 4:19 but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing. 4:20 But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”
The Parable of the Lamp
4:21 He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand? 4:22 For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light. 4:23 If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!” 4:24 And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you. 4:25 For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”
The Parable of the Growing Seed
4:26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. 4:27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 4:28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
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Names, People and Places:
 · Satan a person, male (evil angelic),an angel that has rebelled against God


Dictionary Themes and Topics: JESUS CHRIST, 4C1 | Jesus, The Christ | Sermon | MARK, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO, 1 | Word of God | Sower | Minister | Apostasy | PARABLE | Perseverance | Backsliders | Instability | Character | Regeneration | KINGDOM OF GOD (OF HEAVEN), THE | JESUS CHRIST, 3 | Blindness | Kingdom | Lust | Church | more
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NET Notes: Mar 4:1 Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clau...

NET Notes: Mar 4:2 Though parables can contain a variety of figures of speech (cf. 2:19-22; 3:23-25; 4:3-9, 26-32; 7:15-17; 13:28), many times they are simply stories th...

NET Notes: Mar 4:3 A sower went out to sow. The background for this well-known parable, drawn from a typical scene in the Palestinian countryside, is a field through whi...

NET Notes: Mar 4:4 Mark’s version of the parable, like Luke’s (cf. Luke 8:4-8), uses the collective singular to refer to the seed throughout, so singular pro...

NET Notes: Mar 4:5 Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

NET Notes: Mar 4:6 Grk “it did not have root.”

NET Notes: Mar 4:7 That is, crowded out the good plants.

NET Notes: Mar 4:8 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.

NET Notes: Mar 4:9 The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let hi...

NET Notes: Mar 4:11 This is an example of a “divine passive,” with God understood to be the source of the revelation (see ExSyn 437-38).

NET Notes: Mar 4:12 A quotation from Isa 6:9-10. Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on whether one is open to hearing what they teach.

NET Notes: Mar 4:13 Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the n...

NET Notes: Mar 4:15 The word of Jesus has the potential to save if it germinates in a person’s heart, something the devil is very much against.

NET Notes: Mar 4:17 Grk “are temporary.”

NET Notes: Mar 4:19 That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.

NET Notes: Mar 4:20 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

NET Notes: Mar 4:21 Or “a bowl”; this refers to any container for dry material of about eight liters (two gallons) capacity. It could be translated “bas...

NET Notes: Mar 4:22 Or “disclosed.”

NET Notes: Mar 4:23 The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let hi...

NET Notes: Mar 4:24 Grk “by [the measure] with which you measure it will be measured to you.”

NET Notes: Mar 4:25 What he has will be taken from him. The meaning is that the one who accepts Jesus’ teaching concerning his person and the kingdom will receive a...

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