Mark 4:3
“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
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Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
Mark 4:1
Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
Mark 4:2
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
Mark 4:3
“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
Mark 4:4
As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
Mark 4:5
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
Mark 4:6
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Luke 8:4
When a great multitude came together and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable:
Luke 8:5
“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
Luke 8:7
Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
Luke 8:8
Other fell into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
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Mark 4:9
He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Mark 7:16
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Mark 4:23
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Mark 7:14
He called all the multitude to himself and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
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Mark 4:14
The farmer sows the word.
Mark 4:15
The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
Isaiah 28:23
Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Matthew 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Matthew 13:24
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Matthew 13:26
But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
Matthew 13:37
He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
Luke 8:11
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
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Mark 4:10
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
Mark 4:11
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Mark 4:13
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
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Mark 4:26
He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
Mark 4:27
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
Mark 4:28
For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
Mark 4:29
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
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John 4:36
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
John 4:37
For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
John 4:38
I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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Jeremiah 4:3
For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”
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