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\subsection{Mark 4}
\subsubsection{Parable of the Sower}
\VS{1} And again he began to be teaching by the sea.
And [an] exceedingly great crowd was gathered to him,
so that having embarked he was sitting in [a] boat in the sea,
and the crowd was on the land facing the sea.
\VS{2} And he was teaching them many [things] in parables,
and he was saying to them in his teaching:
\VS{3} Be listening: Behold the [one] sowing came out to sow.
\VS{4} And it came to pass while sowing some fell beside the road,
and the birds came and devoured it.
\VS{5} And other [seed] fell upon the rocky [places],
where it was not having much soil\fnGe{},
and immediately it sprang up because it was not having depth of spol.
\VS{6} And when the sun rose it was burned up,
and because it was not having root it was withered.
\VS{7} And other [seed] fell into thorns,
and the thorns came up and choked it, and it gave no fruit.
\VS{8} And others fell into the good soil\fnGe{}
and coming up and growing it was giving fruit
and it was bearing to thirty[fold] and within sixty and within hundred[fold].
\VS{9} And he was saying: He who has ears to be hearing, let him be hearing\fnImperative{}.
\subsubsection{The Purpose of Parables}
\VS{10} And when he came to be alone,
those around him with the twelve were asking him with regard to the parables.
\VS{11} And he was saying to them:
To you the mystery of the Kingdom of God has been given,
to those outside all things come\footnote{or ``are given'' } in parables,
\VS{12} in order that\footnote{Isa.6:9-10}
\begin{verse}
Looking they look and may not see \\
And hearing they hear and may not understand \\
Lest ever they turn around and he forgive them.
\end{verse}
\VS{13} And he says to them: You do not know this parable,
how also will you know all the parables?
\VS{14} The sower sows the word\fnLogos{}.
\VS{15} But these are those beside the road, where the word\fnLogos{} is sown, and when they hear,
immediately \Satan comes and takes the word\fnLogos{} having been sown in them.
\VS{16} And these being sown upon the rocky [places] are likewise,
which when they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy.
\VS{17} And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary,
then [when] tribulation or persecution comes because of the word,
they stumble.
\VS{18} And these are those being sown into the thorns, these are those having heard the word,
\VS{19} and [when] the cares of the age and the deceitfulness of wealth
and the lusts for the rest enter, they choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.
\VS{20} And these are those having been sown upon the good soil\fnGe{},
which hear the word and receive [it] and bear fruit in thirty and in sixty and in a hundred.
\subsubsection{The Parable of the Lamp}
\VS{21} And he says to them that:
Does [a] lamp come in order that it be placed under the bushel or under the bed?
Is it not in order that it be placed upon the lampstand?
\VS{22} For is anything hidden if not in order that it be revealed?
\VS{23} If anyone has ears to be hearing, let him be hearing\fnImperative{}.
\VS{24} And he says to them: Be watching\fnImperative what you are hearing.
With what measure you measure it shall be measured to you, and shall be put to you.
\VS{25} For whoever has, it shall be given to him,
and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away.
\subsubsection{The Parable of the Growing Seed}
\VS{26} And he was saying:
The Kingdom of God is thus: as [a] person\fnAnthropos{} throws the seed upon the earth\fnGe{}
\VS{27} and he sleeps and gets up night and day, the seed sprouts and grows when he did not know it.
\VS{28} By itself the land bears fruit, first grass, then [an] ear, then full grain on the ear.
\VS{29} When the fruit permits, immediately he sends the sickle because the harvest has come.
\subsubsection{The Parable of the Mustard Seed}
\VS{30} And he was saying:
How shall I liken the Kingdom of God?
Or by means of what shall I set it forth in [a] parable?
\VS{31} As with [a] grain of mustard, which when sown upon the ground,
being smaller than all the seeds upon the ground,
\VS{32} and when sown, it comes up and becomes [the] greater of all the herbs,
and it produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to be dwelling under its shadow.
\subsubsection{The Use of Parables}
\VS{33} And he was speaking to them the word with many such parables,
just as they were able to be hearing,
\VS{34} but without parables he was not speaking to them,
but privately he was explaining everything to his own disciples.
\subsubsection{Stilling of a Storm}
\VS{35} And he says to them in that day, evening having come:
Go through to the other side.
\VS{36} And the crowd having departed they took him with them as he was in the boat,
and another boat was with him.
\VS{37} And there comes [a] great hurricane of wind,
and the waves were casting into the boat, so that already the boat was being filled.
\VS{38} And he himself was in the stern upon the cushion sleeping.
And they rouse him and say to him:
Teacher, is it of no concern to you that we are perishing?
\VS{39} And having been awakened he rebuked the wind and said to the sea:
Be still, be silent.
And the wind ceased, and there came [a] great calm.
\VS{40} And he said to them:
Are you such cowards in this manner?
How do you have no trust\fnPistis{}?
\VS{41} And they were afraid with [a] great fear,
and were saying to one another:
Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?