Mark 4:8-26

⁸And other felde doun in to good loond, and yaf fruyt, springynge vp, and wexynge; and oon brouyte thretti foold, and oon sixti fold, and oon an hundrid fold.

⁹And he seide, He that hath eeris of heryng, here he.

¹⁰And whanne he was bi hym silf, tho twelue that weren with hym axiden hym to expowne the parable.

¹¹And he seide to hem, To you it is youun to knowe the priuete of the kyngdom of God. But to hem that ben with outforth, alle thingis be maad in parablis, that thei seynge se,

¹²and se not, and thei herynge here and vnderstonde not; lest sum tyme thei be conuertid, and synnes be foryouun to hem.

¹³And he seide to hem, Knowe not ye this parable? and hou ye schulen knowe alle parablis?

¹⁴He that sowith, sowith a word.

¹⁵But these it ben that ben aboute the weie, where the word is sowun; and whanne thei han herd, anoon cometh Satanas, and takith awei the word that is sowun in her hertis.

¹⁶And in lijk maner ben these that ben sowun on stony placis, whiche whanne thei han herd the word, anoon thei taken it with ioye;

¹⁷and thei han not roote in hem silf, but thei ben lastynge a litil tyme; aftirward whanne tribulacioun risith, and persecucioun for the word, anoon thei ben sclaundrid.

¹⁸And ther ben othir that ben sowun in thornes; these it ben that heren the word,

¹⁹and disese of the world, and disseit of ritchessis, and othir charge of coueytise entrith, and stranglith the word, and it is maad with out fruyt.

²⁰And these it ben that ben sowun on good lond, whiche heren the word, and taken, and maken fruyt, oon thritti fold, oon sixti fold, and oon an hundrid fold.

²¹And he seide to hem, Wher a lanterne cometh, that it be put vndur a buschel, or vndur a bed? nay, but that it be put on a candilstike?

²²Ther is no thing hid, that schal not be maad opyn; nethir ony thing is pryuey, that schal not come in to opyn.

²³If ony man haue eeris of heryng, here he.

²⁴And he seide to hem, Se ye what ye heren. In what mesure ye meten, it schal be metun to you ayen, and be cast to you.

²⁵For it schal be youun to hym that hath, and it schal be takun awei fro him that hath not, also that that he hath.

²⁶And he seide, So the kingdom of God is, as if a man caste seede in to the erthe,