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Mark 4 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Mark Chapter 4. He began to teach again by the
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  sea, and such a very large crowd gathered to him that he got into
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  a boat in the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was by the
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  sea on the land. And he was teaching them many
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  things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching.
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  Listen to this. Behold, the sower went out to
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  sow. As he was sowing, some seed fell
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  beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
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  Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have
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  much soil, and immediately it sprang up because it had no
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  depth of soil, and after the sun had risen it was scorched, and
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  because it had no root it withered away.
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  Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up
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  and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
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  Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and
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  increased, they yielded A crop and produced 3060 and 100 fold.
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  And he was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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  As soon as he was alone, his followers, along with the 12
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  began asking him about the parables.
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  And he was saying to them, To you has been given the mystery
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  of the Kingdom of God. But those who are outside get
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  everything in parables, so that while seeing they may see and
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  not perceive, and while hearing they may hear and not
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  understand, otherwise they might return and be forgiven.
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  And he said to them, Do you not understand this parable?
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  How will you understand all the parables?
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  The sower sows the word. These are the ones who are
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  beside the road where the Word is sown.
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  And when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the
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  word, which has been sown in them in a similar way.
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  These are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places,
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  who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.
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  And they have no firm root in themselves, but are only
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  temporary. Then when affliction or
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  persecution arises because of the Word, immediately they fall
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  away. And others are the ones on whom
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  seed was sown among the thorns. These are the ones who have
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  heard the word, but the worries of the world and the
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  deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter
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  in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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  And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil,
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  And they hear the word and accept it, and bear fruit. 3060
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  and a hundredfold. And he was saying to them, A
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  lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it?
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  Or under a bed, is it not brought to be put on the
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  lampstand? For nothing is hidden except to
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  be revealed, nor has anything been secret, but it would come
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  to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let
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  him hear. And he was saying to them, Take
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  care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it
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  will be measured to you, and more will be given you besides,
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  for whoever has to him more shall be given.
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  Whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from
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  him. And he was saying, The Kingdom
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  of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil, and he goes
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  to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and
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  grows. How he himself does not know.
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  The seed produces crops by itself, first the blade, then
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  the head, then the mature grain in the head.
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  But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle,
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  because the harvest has come. And he said, How should we
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  picture the Kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present
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  it? It is like a mustard seed, which
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  when sown upon the soil, though it's smaller than all the seeds
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  that are upon the soil, yet when it is sown it grows up and
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  becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large
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  branches, so that the birds of the air can nest under its
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  shade. With many such parables He was
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  speaking the word to them so far as they were able to hear it,
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  and He did not speak to them without a parable, but He was
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  explaining everything privately to his own disciples on that
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  day. When evening came, He said to
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  them, Let us go over to the other side.
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  Leaving the crowd. They took him along with them in
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  the boat, just as he was, and other boats were with him.
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  There arose A fierce Gale of wind, and the waves were
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  breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already
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  filling up. Jesus himself was in the stern,
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  asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to
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  him, Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?
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  And he got up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Hush,
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  be still. And the wind died down, and it
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  became perfectly calm. And he said to them, Why are you
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  afraid? Do you still have no faith?
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  They became very much afraid, and said to one another, Who
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  then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?