Mark 4:8-26

⁸And other felled down into good land, and gave fruit, springing up, and waxing; and one brought thirty-fold, and one sixtyfold, and one an hundredfold.

⁹And he said, He that hath ears of hearing, hear he, or He that hath ears to hear, hear.

¹⁰And when he was by himself, the twelve that were with him asked him to expound the parable.

¹¹And he said to them, To you it is given to know the private or the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to them that be withoutforth, all things be made in parables,

¹²that they seeing see, and see not, and they hearing hear, and understand not; lest sometime they be converted, and sins be forgiven to them.

¹³And he said to them, Know not ye this parable? and how ye shall know all parables?

¹⁴He that soweth, soweth a word.

¹⁵But these it be that be about the way, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, anon cometh Satan, and taketh away the word that is sown in their hearts.

¹⁶And in like manner be these that be sown on stony places, which when they have heard the word, anon they take it with joy;

¹⁷and they have not root in them-selves, but they be lasting a little time or they be temporal; afterward when tribulation riseth, and persecution for the word, anon they be caused to stumble.

¹⁸And there be others that be sown in thorns; these it be, that hear the word,

¹⁹and dis-ease of the world, and deceit of riches, and other charge of covetousness entereth, and strangleth the word, and it is made without fruit.

²⁰And these it be that be sown on good land, which hear the word, and take, and make fruit, one thirtyfold, and one sixtyfold, and one an hundred-fold.

²¹And he said to them, Whether a lantern cometh, that it be put under a bushel, or under a bed? nay, but that it be put on a candlestick?

²²There is nothing hid, that shall not be made open or shall not be showed; neither anything is privy, that shall not come into open.

²³If any man have ears of hearing, hear he.

²⁴And he said to them, See ye what ye hear. In what measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you again, and it shall be cast to you.

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

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