Mark 4:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ "Listen, a sower went out to sow,

³ He spoke at some length to them in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow,

²⁴ He put another parable before them. "The Realm of heaven," he said, "is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

²⁶ When the blade sprouted and formed the kernel, then the weeds appeared as well.

⁹ He added, "Anyone who has ears to hear, let him listen to this."

¹⁴ The sower sows the word.

²³ If anyone has an ear to hear, let him listen to this."

²⁶ And he said, "It is with the Realm of God as when a man has sown seed on earth; ²⁷ he sleeps at night and rises by day, and the seed sprouts and shoots up — he knows not how. ²⁸ (For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.) ²⁹ But whenever the crop is ready, he has the sickle put in at once, as harvest has come."

¹⁴ Then he called the crowd to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this: ¹⁵ nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him; it is what comes from him that defiles him.

⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up; ⁶ some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture; ⁷ some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up along with it and choked it; ⁸ some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

³⁵ You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting! ³⁶ The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy. ³⁷ That proverb, 'One sows and another reaps,' holds true here: ³⁸ I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

¹⁴ But Peter stood up along with the eleven, and raising his voice he addressed them thus: "Men of Judaea and residents in Jerusalem, let everyone of you understand this — attend to what I say:

⁶ I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but it was God who made the seed grow. ⁷ So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done. ⁹ We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

¹ We must therefore pay closer attention to what we have heard, in case we drift away. ² For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case, ³ how shall we escape the penalty for neglecting a salvation which was originally proclaimed by the Lord himself and guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers; has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the realm which he has promised to those who love him?

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

¹¹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'

²⁹ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.