Евангелие от Марка 4

1 И паки начат учити при мори: и собрася к нему народ мног, якоже самому влезшу в корабль, седети в мори: и весь народ при мори на земли бяше.2 И учаше их притчами много и глаголаше им во учении своем:3 слышите: се, изыде сеяй сеяти:4 и бысть егда сеяше, ово паде при пути, и приидоша птицы, и позобаша е:5 другое же паде при камени, идеже не имяше земли многи, и абие прозябе, зане не имяше глубины земныя:6 солнцу же возсиявшу присвяде, и зане не имяше корене, изсше:7 и другое паде в тернии, и взыде терние, и подави е: и плода не даде:8 и другое паде на земли добрей, и даяше плод восходящь и растущь, и приплодоваше на тридесять, и на шестьдесят, и на сто.9 И глаголаше: имеяй ушы слышати да слышит.10 Егда же бысть един, вопросиша его, иже бяху с ним, со обеманадесяте о притчи.11 И глаголаше им: вам есть дано ведати тайны Царствия Божия: онем же внешним в притчах вся бывают,12 да видяще видят, и не узрят: и слышаще слышат, и не разумеют: да не когда обратятся, и оставятся им греси.13 И глагола им: не весте ли притчи сея? и како вся притчи уразумеете?14 Сеяй, слово сеет.15 Сии же суть, иже при пути, идеже сеется слово, и егда услышат, абие приходит сатана и отемлет слово сеянное в сердцах их.16 И сии суть такожде иже на каменных сеемии, иже егда услышат слово, абие с радостию приемлют е:17 и не имут корения в себе, но привременни суть: таже бывшей печали или гонению словесе ради, абие соблажняются.18 А сии суть, иже в тернии сеемии, слышащии слово:19 и печали века сего, и лесть богатства, и о прочих похоти входящыя подавляют слово, и безплодно бывает.20 И сии суть, иже на земли добрей сеяннии, иже слышат слово и приемлют, и плодствуют на тридесять, и на шестьдесят, и на сто.21 И глаголаше им: еда светилник приходит, да под спудом положат его или под одром? не да ли на свещнице положен будет?22 несть бо тайно, еже не явится, ниже бысть потаено, но да приидет в явление:23 аще кто имать ушы слышати, да слышит.24 И глаголаше им: блюдите что слышите: в нюже меру мерите, возмерится вам, и приложится вам слышащым:25 иже бо аще имать, дастся ему: а иже не имать, и еже имать, отимется от него.26 И глаголаше: тако есть (и) Царствие Божие, якоже человек вметает семя в землю,27 и спит, и востает нощию и днию: и семя прозябает и растет, якоже не весть он:28 от себе бо земля плодит прежде траву, потом клас, таже исполняет пшеницу в класе:29 егда же созреет плод, абие послет серп, яко наста жатва.30 И глаголаше: чесому уподобим Царствие Божие? или коей притчи приложим е?31 яко зерно горушично, еже егда всеяно будет в земли, мнее всех семен есть земных:32 и егда всеяно будет, возрастает, и бывает более всех зелий, и творит ветви велия, яко мощи под сению его птицам небесным витати.33 И таковыми притчами многими глаголаше им слово, якоже можаху слышати.34 Без притчи же не глаголаше им словесе: особь же учеником своим сказаше вся.35 И глагола им в той день, вечеру бывшу: прейдем на он пол.36 И отпущше народы, пояша его якоже бе в корабли: и инии же корабли бяху с ним.37 И бысть буря ветрена велика: волны же вливахуся в корабль, яко уже погружатися ему.38 И бе сам на корме на возглавнице спя. И возбудиша его и глаголаша ему: учителю, не радиши ли, яко погибаем?39 И востав запрети ветру и рече морю: молчи, престани. И улеже ветр, и бысть тишина велия.40 И рече им: что тако страшливи есте? како не имате веры?41 И убояшася страхом велиим и глаголаху друг ко другу: кто убо сей есть, яко и ветр и море послушают его?

Mark 4

The Parable of the Sower

1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there whilet the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.2 He taught them many things in parables,s and in his teaching said to them:3 “Listen! A sower went out to sow.s4 And as he sowed, some seedt fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.5 Other seed fell on rocky grounds where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.t6 When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root,t it withered.7 Other seed fell among the thorns,s and they grew up and choked it,s and it did not produce grain.8 Butt other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

9 And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear had better listen!”t

The Purpose of Parables

10 When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

11 He said to them, “The secretts of the kingdom of God has been givent to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

12 so that although they look they may look but not see,
and although they hear they may hear but not understand,
so they may not repent and be forgiven.”s
13 He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? Thent how will you understand any parable?14 The sower sows the word.15 These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satans comes and snatches the words that was sown in them.16 These are the ones sown on rocky ground: As soon as they hear the word, they receive it with joy.17 Butt they have no root in themselves and do not endure.t Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.18 Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,19 butt worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth,t and the desire for other things come in and choke the word,s and it produces nothing.

20 Butt these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

The Parable of the Lamp

21 He also said to them, “A lamps isn’t brought to be put under a baskett or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?22 For nothing is hidden except to be revealed,t and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.23 If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”t24 And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive,t and more will be added to you.

25 For whoever has will be given more, butt whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”s

The Parable of the Growing Seed

26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

29 And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sicklet because the harvest has come.”s

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

30 He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?31 It is like a mustard seeds that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

32 when it is sown, it grows up,t becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birdst can nest in its shade.”s

The Use of Parables

33 Sot with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

34 He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

Stilling of a Storm

35 On that day, when evening came, Jesust said to his disciples, “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”t36 Sot after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat,ts and other boats were with him.37 Nowt a great windstormts developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.38 Butt he was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. They woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are about to die?”39 Sot he got up and rebukedt the wind, and said to the sea,s “Be quiet! Calm down!” Thent the wind stopped, and it was dead calm.40 And he said to them, “Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?”

41 They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, “Who then is this?s Even the wind and sea obey him!”s