Mark 4 (NET)

Mark 4:1¹Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 5:1-3Mark 2:13Luke 8:4-10Mark 3:7Matt 13:1-15

Mark 4:2²He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 3:23Mark 4:11Matt 13:34-35Matt 13:10Matt 13:3Ps 49:4Ps 78:2John 7:16-17Mark 12:38Mark 4:33-34

Mark 4:3³“Listen! A sower went out to sow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:6-9Jas 2:5John 4:35-38Deut 4:1Luke 8:5-8Mark 4:26-29Matt 13:26Acts 2:14Eccl 11:6Heb 2:1-3

Mark 4:4⁴And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:19Mark 4:15Matt 13:4Luke 8:12Gen 15:11Luke 8:5

Mark 4:5⁵Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:26Luke 8:6Amos 6:12Ezek 11:19Hos 10:12Luke 8:13Mark 4:16-17Matt 13:20Matt 13:5-6

Mark 4:6⁶When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:11Jer 17:5-8Jonah 4:82 Thess 2:10Col 2:7Eph 3:17Isa 25:4Jude 1:12Ps 1:3-4Ps 92:13-15

Mark 4:7⁷Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:3Luke 8:141 John 2:15-16Gen 3:17-181 Tim 6:9-10Luke 12:15Luke 21:34Luke 8:7Mark 4:18-19Matt 13:22

Mark 4:8⁸But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 15:5Col 1:6Gen 26:12Mark 4:201 Pet 2:1-3Acts 17:11Jer 23:29Matt 13:8Heb 4:1-2Isa 58:1

Mark 4:9⁹And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 4:23-24Matt 11:15Rev 3:22Luke 8:18Mark 7:14-15Rev 3:13Rev 3:6Matt 13:9Matt 15:10Mark 4:3

Mark 4:10¹⁰When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:10-17Luke 8:9-15Mark 4:34Mark 7:17Matt 13:36Prov 13:20

Mark 4:11¹¹He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:25Luke 8:101 Cor 5:12-131 John 5:201 Thess 4:12Col 4:5Jas 1:16-181 Tim 3:7Eph 1:9Eph 2:4-10

Mark 4:12¹²so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 6:9-10Isa 44:18Matt 13:14-15Jer 5:21Deut 29:4John 12:37-41Luke 8:102 Tim 2:25Ezek 12:2Heb 6:6

Mark 4:13¹³He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 3:191 Cor 3:1-2Heb 5:11-14Luke 24:25Luke 8:11-15Mark 7:17-18Matt 13:18-23Matt 13:51-52Matt 15:15-17Matt 16:8-9

Mark 4:14¹⁴The sower sows the word.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 8:4Matt 13:191 Pet 1:23-25Luke 8:11Matt 13:37Mark 2:2Mark 4:3Col 1:5-6Isa 32:20Luke 1:2

Mark 4:15¹⁵These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:8Matt 13:192 Cor 2:112 Cor 4:3-4Luke 8:12Mark 4:4Acts 5:3Isa 53:1Luke 14:18-192 Thess 2:9

Mark 4:16¹⁶These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:13Mark 6:20Ezek 33:31-32John 5:35Matt 13:20-21Acts 8:13Acts 24:25-26Acts 8:18-21Matt 8:19-20

Mark 4:17¹⁷But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:61 Thess 3:3-5John 15:2-7Matt 12:31Rev 2:101 Cor 10:12-131 John 2:192 Tim 1:152 Tim 2:17-182 Tim 4:16

Mark 4:18¹⁸Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:3Luke 8:14Matt 13:22Mark 4:7

Mark 4:19¹⁹but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:15-171 Tim 6:9-101 Tim 6:171 Pet 4:2-3Matt 19:23Phil 4:6John 15:2Luke 12:29-30Luke 10:41Luke 21:34

Mark 4:20²⁰But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:10Luke 8:15John 15:4-5Mark 4:8Matt 13:23Gal 5:22-232 Pet 1:8Gen 26:12John 15:16Rom 7:4

Mark 4:21²¹He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:15Luke 11:33Luke 8:16Isa 60:1-3Eph 5:3-151 Cor 12:7Phil 2:15-16

Mark 4:22²²For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:17Eccl 12:141 Cor 4:5Matt 10:26-27Ps 78:2-4Acts 20:27Acts 4:20Luke 12:2-3Ps 40:9-101 John 1:1-3

Mark 4:23²³If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 4:9Matt 11:15Rev 2:29Rev 2:11Rev 2:17Rev 2:7

Mark 4:24²⁴And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 2:1Luke 8:18Matt 7:22 Cor 9:6Acts 17:11John 10:27Prov 19:27Luke 6:37-38Isa 55:3John 5:25

Mark 4:25²⁵For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:12Luke 8:18Matt 25:28-29John 15:2Luke 16:9-12Luke 19:24-26

Mark 4:26²⁶He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:241 Cor 3:6-91 Pet 1:23-25Luke 8:11Isa 32:20Jas 3:18Luke 8:5Eccl 11:4Eccl 11:6Isa 28:24-26

Mark 4:27²⁷He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 11:52 Thess 1:31 Cor 15:37-38Eccl 8:172 Pet 3:18John 3:7-8

Mark 4:28²⁸By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 1:9-11Hos 6:3Mark 4:31-321 Thess 3:12-13Col 1:10Matt 13:26Phil 1:6Eccl 3:1Eccl 3:11Isa 61:11

Mark 4:29²⁹And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 3:13Isa 57:1-2Matt 13:30Matt 13:40-43Job 5:26Rev 14:13-172 Tim 4:7-8

Mark 4:30³⁰He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:31-32Luke 13:18-21Lam 2:13Matt 13:24Matt 11:16

Mark 4:31³¹It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 19:20Luke 13:18-19Dan 2:44-45Gen 22:17-18Mal 1:11Acts 2:41Acts 21:20Acts 4:4Acts 5:14Amos 9:11-15

Mark 4:32³²when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:20-22Dan 4:10-14Ezek 31:3-10Ps 80:9-11Ps 91:1Isa 11:9Isa 32:2Lam 4:20Song 2:3Prov 4:18

Mark 4:33³³So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:34-35John 16:121 Cor 3:1-2Heb 5:11-14

Mark 4:34³⁴He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 16:25Luke 24:27Mark 4:10Matt 13:36-43Matt 15:15-20Luke 24:44-46Luke 8:9-10Mark 7:17-23

Mark 4:35³⁵On that day, when evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:18Luke 8:25Luke 8:22Matt 8:23-27Matt 14:22Mark 8:13John 6:25John 6:1John 6:17Mark 5:21

Mark 4:36³⁶So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 3:9Mark 4:1Mark 5:2Mark 5:21

Mark 4:37³⁷Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:23-24Job 1:19Luke 8:22-23Jonah 1:4Ps 107:23-31Acts 27:14-20Job 1:12

Mark 4:38³⁸But he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:7Heb 4:15Isa 54:6-8Matt 8:25Luke 8:24Isa 40:27-28Isa 51:9-101 Kgs 18:27-29Isa 49:14-16Isa 64:12

Mark 4:39³⁹So he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Be quiet! Calm down!” Then the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 107:29Ps 89:9Ps 29:10Ps 65:7Jer 5:22Prov 8:29Job 38:11Exod 14:22Exod 14:28-29Ps 104:7-9

Mark 4:40⁴⁰And he said to them, “Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:25Matt 14:31Matt 8:26Isa 43:2Matt 16:8Matt 6:30Ps 46:1-3John 6:19-20Isa 42:3

Mark 4:41⁴¹They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, “Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 8:251 Sam 12:18-20Job 38:111 Sam 12:24Jonah 1:15-16Jonah 1:9-10Matt 8:27Ps 89:7Mark 5:33Matt 14:32