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Mark 3–4
nev­er be for­g iv­en; they are ­g uilty of an
eter­nal sin.”
30  He said this be­c ause they were say­i ng,
“He has an im­pure spir­it.”
31  Then J
­ esus’ moth­er and broth­ers ar­
rived. Stand­ing out­side, they sent some­one
in to call him. 32  A ­crowd was sit­t ing ­a round
him, and they told him, “Your moth­er and
Jesus Accused by His Family and
broth­ers are out­side look­ing for you.”
by Teachers of the Law
33  “Who are my moth­
er and my broth­
20  Then ­Jesus en­t ered a h
­ ouse, and a ­ gain ers?” he asked.
a c ­ rowd gath­ered, so that he and his dis­ci­
34  Then he ­
looked at ­those seat­ed in a
ples were not even able to eat. 21  When his cir­cle ­a round him and said, “Here are my
a
fam­i­ly  ­heard ­about this, they went to take moth­er and my broth­ers! 35  Who­ev­er does
charge of him, for they said, “He is out of ­G od’s will is my broth­er and sis­ter and
his mind.”
moth­er.”
22  And the teach­ers of the law who came
down from Je­ru­s a­lem said, “He is pos­ The Parable of the Sower
sessed by Be­el­z e­bul! By the ­prince of de­
Again J ­ esus be­gan to ­teach by the lake.
mons he is driv­ing out de­mons.”
The ­c rowd that gath­ered ­a round him
23  So J
­ esus ­c alled them over to him and was so ­large that he got into a boat and sat
be­gan to ­speak to them in par­a­bles: “How in it out on the lake, w
­ hile all the peo­ple
can Sa­t an ­drive out Sa­t an? 24  If a king­dom were a ­ long the ­shore at the wa­ter’s edge.
is di­v id­ed ­against it­self, that king­dom can­ 2  He ­t aught them many ­t hings by par­a­bles,
­ ouse is di­v id­ed a ­ gainst and in his teach­ing said: 3  “Lis­ten! A farm­er
not ­stand. 25  If a h
it­s elf, that ­house can­not ­stand. 26  And if went out to sow his seed. 4  As he was scat­
Sa­t an op­p os­es him­self and is di­v id­ed, he ter­ing the seed, some fell a ­ long the path,
can­not ­stand; his end has come. 27  In fact, and the ­birds came and ate it up. 5  Some fell
no one can en­ter a ­strong m
­ an’s ­house with­ on r ­ ocky plac­es, w
­ here it did not have much
out ­first ty­ing him up. Then he can plun­ soil. It s ­ prang up quick­ly, be­cause the soil
der the ­strong m
­ an’s h
­ ouse. 28  Tru­ly I tell was shal ­low. 6  But when the sun came up,
you, peo­ple can be for­g iv­en all ­their sins the p
­ lants were ­s corched, and they with­
and e ­ very slan­der they ut­ter, 29  but who­ev­
er blas­phemes a ­ gainst the Holy Spir­it will a  21 Or his associates
Zeb­e­dee and his broth­er John (to them he
gave the name Bo­a ­ner­ges, ­which ­means
“sons of thun­der”), 18  An­d rew, Phil ­ip, Bar­
thol­o­mew, Mat ­t hew, Thom­a s, ­James son
of Al­phae­us, Thad­dae­us, Si­mon the Zeal­ot
19  and Ju­das Is­c ar­i­ot, who be­t rayed him.
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Sowing Seeds
Farmers in the first century didn’t use
machines to plant, or sow, their fields
with seed. They took handfuls of seed
and, with a sweeping motion, threw it
on the ground they had plowed. A
skillful sower could spread grain seeds
very evenly.