Mark 4:17-35

¹⁷yet have no rotes in them selves and so endure but a tyme: and anone as trouble and persecucion aryseth for the wordes sake they fall immediatly.

¹⁸And they that are sowe amonge the thornes are soche as heare the worde:

¹⁹and the care of this worlde and the disseytfulnes of ryches and the lustes of other thinges entre in and choocke the worde and it is made vnfrutfull.

²⁰And those that weare sowe in good grounde are they that heare the worde and receave it and bringe forth frute some thirty folde some sixty folde some an hundred folde.

²¹And he sayde vnto them: is the candle lighted to be put vnder a busshell or vnder the table and not rather to be put on a candelstick?

²²For there is nothinge so prevy that shall not be opened: nether so secreet but that it shall come abroade.

²³Yf eny man have eares to heare let him heare.

²⁴And he sayde vnto them: take hede what ye heare. With what measure ye mete with the same shall it be measured vnto you agayne. And vnto you that heare shall more be geve.

²⁵For vnto him that hath shall it be geven: and from him that hath not shalbe taken awaye even that he hath.

²⁶And he sayde: so is the kyngdome of God even as yf a man shuld sowe seed in the groude

²⁷and shulde slepe and ryse vp night and daye: and the seede shuld springe and growe vp he not ware.

²⁸For the erth bringeth forthe frute of her silfe: fyrst the blade then the eares after that full corne in the eares.

²⁹And as sone as the frute is brought forth anone he throusteth in the sykell because the hervest is come.

³⁰And he sayde: where vnto shall we lyke the kyngdome of God? or with what compareson shall we compare it?

³¹It is lyke a grayne of mustard seed which when it is sowe in the erth is the leest of all seedes that be in the erth:

³²but after that it is sowen it groweth vp and is greatest of all yerbes: and bereth greate brauches so that the fowles of the ayre maye dwell vnder the shadowe of it.

³³And with many soche similitudes he preached the worde vnto the after as they myght heare it.

³⁴And with out similitude spake he no thinge vnto them. But when they were aparte he expounded all thinges to his disciples.

³⁵And the same daye when even was come he sayde vnto them: let vs passe over vnto the other syde.