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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Mark 4 YLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/mark/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/mark/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">YLT</a> > Mark 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../mark/3.htm" title="Mark 3">◄</a> Mark 4 <a href="../mark/5.htm" title="Mark 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Young's Literal Translation</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Sower<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/13.htm">Matthew 13:1-9</a>; <a href="../luke/8.htm#4">Luke 8:4-15</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>‘Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the fowls of the heaven did come and devour it; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to them, ‘He who is having ears to hear — let him hear.’</p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">The Purpose of Jesus' Parables<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/13.htm#10">Matthew 13:10-17</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when he was alone, those about him, with the twelve, did ask him of the simile, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and he said to them, ‘To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.’</p> <a name="13" id="13"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Sower Explained<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/13.htm#18">Matthew 13:18-23</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he saith to them, ‘Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He who is sowing doth sow the word; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>‘And these are they, in like manner, who on the rocky ground are sown: who, whenever they may hear the word, immediately with joy do receive it, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>‘And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>‘And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.’</p> <a name="21" id="21"></a><p class="hdg">The Lesson of the Lamp<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../luke/8.htm#16">Luke 8:16-18</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he said to them, ‘Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch — not that it may be put on the lamp-stand? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If any hath ears to hear — let him hear.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he said to them, ‘Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever hath not, also that which he hath shall be taken from him.’</p> <p class="hdg">The Seed Growing Secretly</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And he said, ‘Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.’</p> <a name="30" id="30"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Mustard Seed<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/13.htm#31">Matthew 13:31-32</a>; <a href="../luke/13.htm#18">Luke 13:18-19</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he said, ‘To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.</p> <a name="35" id="35"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Stills the Storm<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/8.htm#23">Matthew 8:23-27</a>; <a href="../luke/8.htm#22">Luke 8:22-25</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, ‘We may pass over to the other side;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled, <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, ‘Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be stilled;’ and the wind did lull, and there was a great calm: <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>and he said to them, ‘Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/mark/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, ‘Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?’</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../mark/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Mark 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Mark 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../mark/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Mark 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Mark 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/mark/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="320" scrolling="no" src="//biblemenus.com/adframe728bhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>