Gospel of Mark

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

The farmer sows the word.

These are the ones by the road, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

These in like manner are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

These are those which were sown on the good ground: such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand?

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."