Mark 4:9
He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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Matthew 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
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Mark 4:4
As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
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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.
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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.
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Mark 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
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