Gospel of Mark

He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.