Category Archives: Parables

And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But whenContinue reading “Mark 4: 26-29….Wait until it is ripe!”

And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he saidContinue reading “Mark 4: 21-25….Where will I place the light?”

And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. And theseContinue reading “Mark 4: 13-20…. The sower story explained.”

And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that“‘they may indeed see but not perceive,and may indeed hear but not understand,lestContinue reading “Mark 4: 10-12…..Why did Jesus teach in parables?”

Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching heContinue reading “Mark 4: 1-9….. The Sower Parable.”