Mark 4:4

Mark 4:4

2 Then He taught them many things by parables, ^aand said to them in His teaching:

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds¹ of the air came and devoured it.

5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.

6 But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.

7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no¹ crop.

8 But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

9 And He said¹ to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

The Purpose of Parables

10 ^aBut when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the wayside—by the side of the hard path through the field, where the soil was not broken up.

and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up—Not only could the seed not get beneath the surface, but "it was trodden down" (Luke 8:5), and afterwards picked up and devoured by the fowls. What means this? See on Mark 4:15.

Second Case: THE STONY or rather, ROCKY GROUND. (Mark 4:5, Mark 4:16).

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