Mark 4:8-26

⁸And other felled down into good land, and gave fruit, springing up, and waxing (or growing); and one brought (forth) thirtyfold, and one sixtyfold, and one an hundredfold.

⁹And he said, He that hath ears of hearing, hear he. And he said, 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 (or To you it is given to know the secret of the Kingdom of God). But to them that be withoutforth, all things be made in parables,

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

¹³And he said to them, Know not ye this parable? and how ye shall know all parables? (And he said to them, Do ye not understand this parable? then how shall ye understand any parable?)

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 (or at once Satan cometh), 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 (or at once they receive it with joy);

¹⁷and they have not root in themselves, but they be lasting (but) a little time or but they be temporal; afterward when tribulation riseth, and persecution for the word, anon (or at once) 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 (or and the burden of envy 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 (it), (or and receive it), and make fruit, one thirtyfold, and one sixtyfold, and one an hundredfold.

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 that shall not be showed; neither anything is privy, that shall not come into (the) open. (There is nothing hidden, that shall not be made open or revealed; nor is anything private, or kept secret, that shall not be brought out into the 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 (or By which measure ye measure, it shall be measured unto you again, yea, it shall be thrown unto 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. Forsooth it shall be given to him that hath, and if a man hath not, yea this that he hath shall be taken away from him.

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