Mark 4:14-16

¹⁴Listen to me again. In my story, a man threw out the seeds to grow some food. This is like somebody that tells God’s word to people.

¹⁵I said that some seeds fell on the road, and the road was too hard, so the seeds stayed on top of it. They couldn’t grow to make new plants. Those seeds are a picture for God’s word. Some people are too hard and don’t listen to God’s word. They are like that road. The birds are a picture of the devil called Satan. He makes them forget God’s word, so they take no notice of its message.

¹⁶In my story there was ground with too much rock in it. That is a picture of people that are happy to listen to God’s word and they start to take notice of him.