Mark 4:3 Cross References - NSB

³ »Listen, the sower went out to sow.

¹ »Israel, listen to these laws and teachings! If you obey them you will live! Go in and take the land that Jehovah the God of your fathers is giving you.

¹¹ Come, you sons, listen to me. I will teach you the respect of Jehovah.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, pay attention and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father's house.

³² »Listen to me, my children: for blessed are those who practice my ways.

²⁴ Listen to me dear sons and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

⁶ In the morning sow your seed. In the evening do not withhold your hand. For you do not know which shall prosper. Whether they both will alike be good.

²³ Give ear and hear my voice. Listen and hear my speech. ²⁴ Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? ²⁵ When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cummin and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place? ²⁶ He instructs him in right judgment and his God teaches him.

¹ Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. ² Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

³ »Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel. I have upheld you since you were conceived. I have carried you since your birth.

¹² »Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are far from righteousness.

³ He told them many illustrations. He said: »A farmer went out to sow.

²⁴ He told another illustration, saying: »The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field.

²⁶ »When the blade sprouted and brought forth fruit, it looked like wheat.

⁹ He continued: »He who has ears to hear let him hear.«

¹⁴ »The sower sows the word.

²³ »If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.«

²⁶ He added: »The kingdom of God is like this. A man plants seed in the earth. ²⁷ »He sleeps and gets up night and day until the plants grow though he has no idea how. ²⁸ »The earth gives fruit by itself. First comes the leaf, then the head, then full grain. ²⁹ »When the grain is ready he immediately sends men to cut it, because the time for cutting has come.«

¹⁴ He called the crowd again and said: »Listen and understand! ¹⁵ »Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. That which comes from inside of a man can make him unclean.

⁵ »The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed some fell by the side of the road. It was trampled under foot and the birds of heaven devoured it. ⁶ »Other seed fell on the rock. As soon as it grew it withered away because it had no moisture. ⁷ »Still other seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew with it, and choked it. ⁸ »Other seed fell on the good ground. It grew and produced fruit a hundredfold.« As he said these things he cried. He said: »He who has ears to hear let him hear.«

³⁵ »Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest. ³⁶ »He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ »That saying is true. One sows and another reaps. ³⁸ »I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.«

¹⁴ But Peter, stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them: »You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem let me explain this to you. Listen to my words.

⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God caused the growth. ⁷ Neither he that plants and neither he that waters is anything; but God gives the increase. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ For we are fellow workers together with God. You are God's field under cultivation. You are God's building.

¹ Pay close attention to the things heard so we do not drift away. ² If the word spoken through angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward (penalty). ³ How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first presented by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

⁵ Listen, my dearly beloved brothers! Did God choose poor people in the world to be rich in faith and to receive the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

⁷ »'He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations! To him who overcomes I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the (Paradise) Garden of God.'

¹¹ »'He who can hear should listen to what the Spirit says to the congregations. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'

²⁹ »'He who can hear let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations.'«