Mark 4:14-21

English Standard Version

^14 (A)The sower sows ^(B)the word. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it ^(C)with joy. ¹⁷ And they have no root in themselves, but ^(D)endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^(E)they fall away.^{[a] 18} And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, ¹⁹ but ^(F)the cares of ^(G)the world and ^(H)the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. ²⁰ But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and ^(I)bear fruit, ^(J)thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

A Lamp Under a Basket

^21 (K)And he said to them, ^(L)“Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?