Mark 4:1-3

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Parable of the sower

4 Once again Jesus began to teach beside the sea. A huge crowd gathered; so he got into a boat and stationed himself on the sea, with all the crowd on the shore looking out to sea. ²He taught them lots of things in parables. This is how his teaching went.

³“Listen!” he said. “Once upon a time there was a sower who went out sowing.

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Mark 4:1-3

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The Parable of the Sower^(A)^(B)

4 Again Jesus began to teach by the lake.^(C) The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. ²He taught them many things by parables,^(D) and in his teaching said: ³“Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.^(E)