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Mark 3:33 / 1152 mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” 33 “Who are my mother and my broth ers?” he asked. 34 Then he looked at t hose seated in a circle a round him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” The Parable of the Sower 4 Again Jesus beg an to teach by the lake. The c rowd that gath ered a round him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were a long the shore at the water’s edge. 2 He taught them many things by parables, and in his teach ing said: 3 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell a long the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they with ered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell a mong t horns, which grew up and c hoked the plants, so that they did not bear g rain. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirt y, some six ty, some a hundred times.” 9 Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” 10 When he was a lone, the Twelve and the others a round him asked him about the parables. 11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to t hose on the outside every thing is said in parables 12 so that, “ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ a ” 13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farm er sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed a long the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worr ies of this life, the deceit fulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, mak ing it unfruitf ul. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop — some thirt y, some sixt y, some a hundred times what was sown.” A Lamp on a Stand 21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? In stead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For whate ver is hidden is meant to be dis closed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If any one has ears to hear, let them hear.” 24 “Consider caref ully what you hear,” he cont inued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you — and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” The Parable of the Growing Seed 26 He also said, “This is what the king dom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the g round. 27 Night and day, wheth er he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produce s g rain — f irst the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.” The Parable of the Mustard Seed 30 Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what par able shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all gar a 12 Isaiah 6:9,10

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