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Mark 4

Mark 4:1

AND HE BEGAN AGAIN TO TEACH BY THE SEASIDE; AND THERE WAS GATHERED UNTO HIM A GREAT MULTITUDE, SO THAT HE ENTERED INTO A SHIP AND SAT IN THE SEA; AND THE WHOLE MULTITUDE WAS BY THE SEA ON THE LAND.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:2

AND HE TAUGHT THEM MANY THINGS BY PARABLES, AND SAID UNTO THEM IN HIS DOCTRINE. Jesus had devoted some time to the private instruction of His disciples, in which He had been interrupted by the dispute with the Pharisees. He now resumed His ministry to the people of Galilee and the others that had co... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:4

AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE SOWED, SOME FELL BY THE WAYSIDE, AND THE FOWLS OF THE AIR CAME AND DEVOURED IT UP.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:5

AND SOME FELL ON STONY GROUND, WHERE IT HAD NOT MUCH EARTH; AND IMMEDIATELY IT SPRANG UP BECAUSE IT HAD NO DEPTH OF EARTH;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:8

AND OTHER FELL ON GOOD GROUND, AND DID YIELD FRUIT THAT SPRANG UP AND INCREASED; AND BROUGHT FORTH, SOME THIRTY, AND SOME SIXTY, AND SOME AN HUNDRED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:9

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, HE THAT HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. Jesus calls attention to His words, He wants all hearers to listen, very closely, in order not to miss one word of His discourse. For His are not the words of a mere man that often uses words without meaning and connection, but every wo... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:11

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, UNTO YOU IT IS GIVEN TO KNOW THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD; BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE WITHOUT, ALL THESE THINGS ARE DONE IN PARABLES:... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:12

THAT SEEING THEY MAY SEE, AND NOT PERCEIVE; AND HEARING THEY MAY HEAR, AND NOT UNDERSTAND; LEST AT ANY TIME THEY SHOULD BE CONVERTED, AND THEIR SINS SHOULD BE FORGIVEN THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:13

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, KNOW YE NOT THIS PARABLE? AND HOW, THEN, WILL YE KNOW ALL PARABLES? The disciples of the Lord, the Twelve as well as the others that believed on Him and were with Him as much as possible, were still very dense in spiritual understanding. So they took the opportunity, when they... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:15

AND THESE ARE THEY BY THE WAYSIDE, WHERE THE WORD IS SOWN; BUT WHEN THEY HAVE HEARD, SATAN COMETH IMMEDIATELY AND TAKETH AWAY THE WORD THAT WAS SOWN IN THEIR HEARTS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:16

AND THESE ARE THEY LIKEWISE WHICH ARE SOWN IN STONY GROUND; WHO, WHEN THEY HAVE HEARD THE WORD, IMMEDIATELY RECEIVE IT WITH GLADNESS;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:17

AND HAVE NO ROOT IN THEMSELVES, AND SO ENDURE BUT FOR A TIME; AFTERWARD, WHEN AFFLICTION OR PERSECUTION ARISETH FOR THE WORD'S SAKE, IMMEDIATELY THEY ARE OFFENDED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:19

AND THE CARES OF THIS WORLD, AND THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, AND THE LUSTS OF OTHER THINGS ENTERING IN CHOKE THE WORD, AND IT BECOMETH UNFRUITFUL.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:20

AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH ARE SOWN ON GOOD GROUND; SUCH AS HEAR THE 'WORD, AND RECEIVE IT, AND BRING FORTH FRUIT, SOME THIRTY-FOLD, SOME SIXTY, AND SOME AN HUNDRED. It is Christ that sows the seed of His Word, even today, by the preaching of the Gospel. But the hearers of the Gospel may well be divid... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:21

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, IS A CANDLE BROUGHT TO BE PUT UNDER A BUSHEL OR UNDER A BED, AND NOT TO BE SET ON A CANDLESTICK?... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:22

FOR THERE IS NOTHING HID WHICH SHALL NOT BE MANIFESTED; NEITHER WAS ANYTHING KEPT SECRET BUT THAT IT SHOULD COME ABROAD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:23

IF ANY MAN HAVE EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. There are two reasons why Jesus introduces this thought here which He had also used in the Sermon on the Mount. The knowledge which He here transmitted to His disciples was a part of their equipment as preachers, to be used by them for the benefit of their... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:24

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE HEED WHAT YE HEAR: WITH WHAT MEASURE YE METE, IT SHALL BE MEASURED TO YOU; AND UNTO YOU THAT HEAR SHALL MORE BE GIVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:25

FOR HE THAT HATH, TO HIM SHALL BE GIVEN; AND HE THAT HATH NOT, FROM HIM SHALL BE TAKEN EVEN THAT WHICH HE HATH. Christ here uses some proverbial sayings, quoted by Him elsewhere, in a new connection, Matthew 7:2; Matthew 13:12. The disciples, and especially the Twelve, were now hearing, being instru... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:28

FOR THE EARTH BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF; FIRST THE BLADE, THEN THE EAR, AFTER THAT THE FULL CORN IN THE EAR.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:29

BUT WHEN THE FRUIT IS BROUGHT FORTH, IMMEDIATELY HE PUTTETH IN THE SICKLE BECAUSE THE HARVEST IS COME. Here is another parable, addressed especially to the disciples, and containing an important lesson for them in their future work. If a farmer sows good seed into his fields, all his worrying about... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:31

IT IS LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD-SEED, WHICH, WHEN IT IS SOWN IN THE EARTH, IS LESS THAN ALL THE SEEDS THAT BE IN THE EARTH;... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:32

BUT WHEN IT IS SOWN, IT GROWETH UP, AND BECOMETH GREATER THAN ALL HERBS, AND SHOOTETH OUT GREAT BRANCHES, SO THAT THE FOWLS OF THE AIR MAY LODGE UNDER THE SHADOW OF IT. It is not a matter of indifference, but of anxious concern to the Lord, as it should be to all true teachers of the Word, in what w... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:34

BUT WITHOUT A PARABLE SPAKE HE NOT UNTO THEM; AND WHEN THEY WERE ALONE, HE EXPOUNDED ALL THINGS TO HIS DISCIPLES. The parables here related by Mark were by no means all that the Lord spoke on that day, whether in the boat or at home. The ones given here are only a few of many. He tried to fit the in... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:36

AND WHEN THEY HAD SENT AWAY THE MULTITUDE, THEY TOOK HIM EVEN AS HE WAS IN THE SHIP. AND THERE WERE ALSO WITH HIM OTHER LITTLE SHIPS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:37

AND THERE AROSE A GREAT STORM OF WIND, AND THE WAVES BEAT INTO THE SHIP, SO THAT IT WAS NOW FULL. It was on the evening of the day on which Christ had taught the people and His disciples in so many parables. He was probably very tired from the strain of speaking for many hours and desired a few hour... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:38

AND HE WAS IN THE HINDER PART OF THE SHIP, ASLEEP ON A PILLOW. AND THEY AWAKE HIM AND SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER, CAREST THOU NOT THAT WE PERISH?... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:39

AND HE AROSE, AND REBUKED THE WIND, AND SAID UNTO THE SEA, PEACE, BE STILL! AND THE WIND CEASED, AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Mark 4:41

AND THEY FEARED EXCEEDINGLY, AND SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS, THAT EVEN THE WIND AND THE SEA OBEY HIM? In the midst of all this turmoil Jesus, true man as He was, tired out from the day's hard work, was soundly asleep, lying in the stern of the boat, with His head on the low benc... [ Continue Reading ]

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