Douay Rheims Original ↷
Mark 4 📜 📕 ↷
3 Hear ye; Behold, the sower went forth to sow.📜💬📚
4 And whiles he soweth, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came, and did eat it.📜💬📚
5 And othersome fell upon rocky places where it had not much earth: and it shot up immediately, because it had not deepness of earth:📜💬📚
6 and when the sun was risen, it parched, and because it had not root, it withered.📜💬📚
7 And some fell among thorns: and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded not fruit.📜💬📚
8 And some fell upon good ground; and it yielded fruit that grew up & increased, and it brought forth, one thirty, one sixty, and one an hundred.📜💬📚
9 And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.📜💬📚
Purpose of Jesus' Parables
10 And when he was alone, the Twelve that were with him, asked him the parable.📜💬📚
11 And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God; but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:📜💬📚
12 that seeing they may see, and not see; and hearing they may hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should be converted and their sins be forgiven them.📜💬📚
Parable of the Sower Explained
13 And he saith to them: Do you not know this parable? And how shall you know all parables?📜💬📚
14 He that soweth, soweth the word.📜💬📚
15 And they by the way side, are these: where the word is sown, and when they shall have heard, immediately cometh Satan, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.📜💬📚
16 And they likewise that are sown upon the rocky places, are these: who when they hear the word, immediately with joy receive it;📜💬📚
17 And they have not root in them selves, but are temporal: afterward when tribulation is risen and persecution for the word, forthwith they are scandalized.📜💬📚
18 And other there be that are sown among thorns: these are they that hear the word,📜💬📚
19 and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches, and concupiscences about other things entering in, choke the word, and it is made fruitless.📜💬📚
20 And these are they that were sown upon the good ground, which hear the word, and receive it, and yield fruit one thirty, one sixty, and one an hundred.📜💬📚
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