Mark 4:17-35

¹⁷And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and then when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are presently scandalized.

¹⁸And others there are who are sown among thorns: these are they that hear the word,

¹⁹And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.

²⁰And these are they who are sown upon the good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and yield fruit, the one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred.

²¹And he said to them: Doth a candle come in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

²²For there is nothing hid, which shall not be made manifest: neither was it made secret, but that it may come abroad.

²³If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

²⁴And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you.

²⁵For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken away from him.

²⁶And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth,

²⁷And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.

²⁸For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.

²⁹And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

³⁰And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it?

³¹It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth:

³²And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof.

³³And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

³⁴And without parable he did not speak unto them; but apart, he explained all things to his disciples.

³⁵And he saith to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass over to the other side.