Mark 4:1-8

Tree of Life Version

Storytelling Opens Hearts

4 Again Yeshua began to teach by the sea. A large crowd gathered around Him, so He got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the crowd was by the sea on the land. ² He began teaching them many things by parables, and in His teaching, He said to them: ³ “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to spread some seed. ⁴ It happened that as he sowed, some fell beside the road; and the birds came and ate it up.

⁵ “Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it didn’t have much soil. It sprang up immediately, because the soil wasn’t deep. ⁶ But when the sun came up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

⁷ “Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew and choked it, and it yielded no crop.

⁸ “And others fell into the good soil and were producing fruit, springing up and increasing. They yielded a crop, producing thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”