| The Parable of the Sower Mk.4.1-9 | NEB Contents | notes | GO TO highlighted passage ↓| 4 | New English Bible (New Testament) | Passage | New Testament in Greek (UBS.Ed.26) |
| 4 1 | ON ANOTHER OCCASION he began to teach by the lake-side. The crowd that gathered round him was so large that he had to get into a boat on the lake, and there he sat, with the whole crowd on the beach right down to the water's edge. | The Parable of the Sower Mk.4.1-9 (Plain of Gennesaret) | Mt.13.1-9 | Lk.8.4-8 | Καὶ πάλιν ἠρξατο διδάσκειν παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν. καὶ συνάγεται πρὸς αὐτὸν ὀχλος πλεῖστος, ὡστε αὐτὸν εἰς πλοῖον ἐμβάντα καθῆσθαι ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὀχλος πρὸς τὴν θάλασσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἦσαν. |
| 2 | And he taught them many things by parables. As he taught he said: | καὶ ἐδίδασκεν αὐτοὺς ἐν παραβολαῖς πολλά, καὶ ἐλεγεν αὐτοῖς ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ, | |
| 3 | 'Listen! A sower went out to sow. | Ἀκούετε. ἰδοὺ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων σπεῖραι. | |
| 4 | And it happened that as he sowed, some seed fell along the footpath; and the birds came and ate it up. | καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ σπείρειν ὃ μὲν ἐπεσεν παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν, καὶ ἦλθεν τὰ πετεινὰ καὶ κατέφαγεν αὐτό. | |
| 5 | Some seed fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil, and it sprouted quickly because it had no depth of earth; | καὶ ἀλλο ἐπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸ πετρῶδες ὁπου οὐκ εἶχεν γῆν πολλήν, καὶ εὐθὺς ἐξανέτειλεν διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐχειν βάθος γῆς· | |
| 6 | but when the sun rose the young corn was scorched, and as it had no proper root it withered away. | καὶ ὅτε ἀνέτειλεν ὁ ἡλιος ἐκαυματίσθη, καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐχειν ῥίζαν ἐξηράνθη. | |
| 7 | Some seed fell among thistles; but the thistles shot up and choked the corn, and it yielded no crop. | καὶ ἀλλο ἐπεσεν εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας, καὶ ἀνέβησαν αἱ ἀκανθαι καὶ συνέπνιξαν αὐτό, καὶ καρπὸν οὐκ ἐδωκεν. | |
| 8 | And some of the seed fell into good soil, where it came up and grew, and bore fruit; and the yield was thirtyfold, sixtyfold, even a hundredfold.' | καὶ ἀλλα ἐπεσεν εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν καλήν, καὶ ἐδίδου καρπὸν ἀναβαίνοντα καὶ αὐξανόμενα, καὶ ἐφερεν ἓν τριάκοντα καὶ ἓν ἑξήκοντα καὶ ἓν ἑκατόν. | |
| 9 | He added, 'If you have ears to hear, then hear.' | καὶ ἐλεγεν, Ὃς ἐχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω. | |