Mark 4:18 "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,
Mark 4:19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Mark 4:20 "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."
Mark 4:21 ¶ And He was saying to them, "A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
Mark 4:22 "For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.
Mark 4:23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mark 4:24 And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.
Mark 4:25 "For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."
Mark 4:26 ¶ And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
Mark 4:27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know.
Mark 4:28 "The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
Mark 4:29 "But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
Mark 4:30 ¶ And He said, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?
Mark 4:31 "It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,
Mark 4:32 yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."
Mark 4:33 ¶ With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;
Mark 4:34 and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.
Mark 4:35 ¶ On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."
Mark 4:36 Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.
Mark 4:37 And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.