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Mark 5:5   |  815
and pro­duced a crop, some mul­t i­ply­i ng thir­t y,
some six­t y, some a hun­d red 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 par­
a­bles. 11  He told them, “The se­cret of the king­
dom of God has been giv­en to you. But to ­t hose
on the out­side ev­ery­t hing 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 un­
der­stand this par­a­ble? How then will you un­
der­stand any par­a­ble? 14  The farm­er 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 trou­
ble or per­se­cu­t ion ­comes be­cause of the word,
they quick­ly fall away. 18  Still oth­ers, like seed
sown ­a mong ­t horns, hear the word; 19  but the
wor­r ies of this life, the de­ceit­f ul­ness of ­wealth
and the de­sires for oth­er ­t hings come in and
choke the word, mak­i ng it un­f ruit­f ul. 20  Oth­
ers, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word,
ac­cept it, and pro­duce a crop — ​some thir­t y,
some six­t y, some a hun­d red ­t imes 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? In­stead, ­don’t
you put it on its ­stand? 22  For what­ev­er is hid­
den is ­meant to be dis­closed, and what­ev­er is
con­cealed is ­meant to be ­brought out into the
open. 23  If any­one has ears to hear, let them
hear.”
24  “Con­s id­e r care­f ul­l y what you hear,” he
con­t in­ued. “With the mea­sure you use, it will
be mea­sured to you — ​a nd even more. 25  Who­
ever 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 king­dom of
God is like. A man scat­ters seed on the ­g round.
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27  Night
and day, wheth­er he ­sleeps or gets up,
the seed ­sprouts and ­g rows, ­t hough he does
not know how. 28  All by it­self the soil pro­duc­es
g rain — ​­f irst the ­stalk, then the head, then the
full ker­nel in the head. 29  As soon as the ­g rain
is ripe, he puts the sick­le to it, be­cause the har­
vest has come.”
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30  Again he said, “What ­s hall we say the
king­dom of God is like, or what par­a­ble ­shall
we use to de­scribe it? 31  It is like a mus­t ard
seed, ­w hich is the small­e st of all ­s eeds on
earth. 32  Yet when plant­ed, it ­g rows and be­
comes the larg­est of all gar­den ­plants, with
such big branch­es that the ­birds can ­perch in
its shade.”
33  With many sim­i ­l ar par­a­bles ­Jesus ­s poke
the word to them, as much as they ­could un­
der­stand. 34  He did not say any­t hing to them
with­out us­i ng a par­a­ble. But when he was
a lone with his own dis­ci­ples, he ex­plained ev­
ery­t hing.
Jesus Calms the Storm
35  That day when eve­n ing came, he said to
his dis­ci­ples, “Let us go over to the oth­er side.”
36  Leav­i ng the ­c rowd be­h ind, they took him
a long, just as he was, in the boat. ­T here were
also oth­er ­boats with him. 37  A fu­r i­ous ­squall
came up, and the ­w aves ­broke over the boat,
so that it was near­ly ­s wamped. 38  Jesus was in
the ­stern, sleep­i ng on a cush­ion. The dis­ci­ples
woke him and said to him, “Teach­er, ­don’t you
care if we drown?”
39  He got up, re­buked the wind and said to
the ­waves, “Qui­et! Be ­still!” Then the wind died
down and it was com­plete­ly calm.
40  He said to his dis­c i­ples, “Why are you so
a fraid? Do you s ­ till have no faith?”
41  They were ter­r i­f ied and ­a sked each oth­
er, “Who is this? Even the wind and the ­waves
obey him!”
Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man
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They went ­across the lake to the re­g ion of
the Ger­a­senes.  b 2  When ­Jesus got out of the
boat, a man with an im­pure spir­it came from
the ­tombs to meet him. 3  This man ­l ived in the
tombs, and no one ­could bind him any­more,
not even with a ­chain. 4  For he had of­ten been
chained hand and foot, but he tore the ­chains
apart and ­broke the ­i rons on his feet. No one
was ­strong ­enough to sub­due him. 5  Night and
day ­a mong the ­tombs and in the ­h ills he ­would
cry out and cut him­self with stones.
Isaiah 6:9,10    b  1  Some manuscripts Gadarenes; other manuscripts Gergesenes