These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Mark 4
Brit Hadashah 41 verses
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Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.
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- 2 Then He proceeded to teach them many lessons in figurative language; and in His teaching He said,
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“Listen: the sower goes out to sow.
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1 Corinthians 3:6-9 Luke 8:5-8 John 4:35-38 Mark 4:26-29 Matthew 13:26 Deuteronomy 4:1 Psalm 45:10 Proverbs 8:32 Matthew 13:3 Isaiah 55:1-2 Mark 4:14 Mark 4:23 Revelation 2:7 Mark 4:9 James 2:5 Proverbs 7:24 Isaiah 46:12 Acts 2:14 Matthew 13:24 Mark 7:14-15 Hebrews 2:1-3 Psalm 34:11 Isaiah 46:3 Revelation 2:29 Revelation 2:11 Ecclesiastes 11:6 Isaiah 28:23-26 -
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As he sows, some of the seed falls by the way-side, and the birds come and peck it up.
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Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;
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- 6 but when the sun is risen, it is scorched, and through having no root it withers away.
- 7 Some, again, falls among the thorns; and the thorns spring up and stifle it, so that it yields no crop.
- 8 But some of the seed falls into good ground, and gives a return: it comes up and increases, and yields thirty, sixty, or a hundred-fold.”
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“Listen,” He added, “every one who has ears to listen with!”
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When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.
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- 11 “To you,” He replied, “has been entrusted the secret concerning the Kingdom of ; but to those others outside your number all this is spoken in figurative language;
- 12 that “’They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.’”
- 13 “Do you all miss the meaning of this parable?” He added; “how then will you understand the rest of my parables?”
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“What the sower sows is the Message.
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Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.
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Revelation 20:10 Revelation 20:2-3 1 Peter 5:8 Revelation 20:7 Acts 5:3 Genesis 19:14 Revelation 12:9 Job 1:6-12 Matthew 22:5 Acts 17:32 Hebrews 12:16 Acts 18:14-17 Acts 17:18-20 Zechariah 3:1 Luke 8:12 2 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 Acts 26:31-32 Matthew 13:19 Luke 14:18-19 Hebrews 2:1 Matthew 4:10 Acts 25:19-20 2 Corinthians 2:11 Isaiah 53:1 Mark 4:4 -
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In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,
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but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.
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Matthew 12:31 Matthew 11:6 1 Thessalonians 3:3-5 2 Timothy 1:15 John 15:2-7 Mark 4:5-6 Luke 12:10 Matthew 24:9-10 Revelation 2:13 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 Hebrews 10:29 Matthew 13:21 2 Timothy 4:16 Job 19:28 John 8:31 1 John 2:19 Revelation 2:10 2 Timothy 2:17-18 Job 27:8-10 2 Timothy 4:10 Galatians 6:12 -
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Others there are who receive the seed among the thorns: these are they who have heard the Message,
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but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.
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1 Timothy 6:17 1 Timothy 6:9-10 1 John 2:15-17 1 Peter 4:2-3 2 Timothy 4:10 Luke 21:34 Matthew 19:23 Ecclesiastes 4:8 Luke 12:29-30 John 15:2 Hebrews 6:7-8 Luke 14:18-20 Luke 10:41 Philippians 4:6 Isaiah 5:4 Matthew 3:10 Ecclesiastes 5:10-16 2 Peter 1:8 Jude 1:12 Luke 12:17-21 Isaiah 5:2 Proverbs 23:5 - 20 Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.”
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He went on to say, “Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand?
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- 22 Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.
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Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!”
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- 24 He also said to them, “Take care what you . With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.
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For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away.”
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Another saying of His was this: “The Kingdom of is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:
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he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
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- 28 Of itself the land produces the crop—first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the grain is seen in the ear.
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But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come.”
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Another saying of His was this: “How are we to picture the Kingdom of ? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?
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It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;
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Malachi 1:11 Isaiah 60:22 Genesis 22:17-18 Zechariah 8:20-23 Daniel 2:44-45 Isaiah 9:7 Isaiah 53:2 Micah 4:1-2 Isaiah 2:2-3 Acts 2:41 Psalm 72:16-19 Daniel 2:34-35 Zechariah 2:11 Isaiah 49:6-7 Amos 9:11-15 Acts 19:20 Zechariah 12:8 Ezekiel 17:22-24 Matthew 13:31-33 Acts 4:4 Isaiah 53:12 Acts 5:14 Luke 13:18-19 Zechariah 14:6-9 Acts 21:20 Revelation 11:15 Revelation 20:1-6 - 32 yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow.”
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With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.
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But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them; while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.
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The same day, in the evening, He said to them, “Let us cross to the other side.”
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- 36 So they got away from the crowd, and took Him—as He was—in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.
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But a heavy squall came on, and the waves were now dashing into the boat, so that it was fast filling.
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- 38 But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion: so they woke Him. “Rabbi,” they cried, “is it nothing to you that we are drowning?”
- 39 So He roused Himself and rebuked the wind, and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” The wind sank, and a calm set in.
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“Why are you so timid?” He asked; “have you still no ?”
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- 41 Then they were filled with terror, and began to say to one another, “Who is this, then? For even wind and sea obey Him.”