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Mark 4:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.” "
Mark 4:20
Verse in Context
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18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
21 He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?
22 For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light.
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Mark 4:1
"Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea."
Mark 4:2
"He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,"
Mark 4:3
"“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow."
Mark 4:4
"As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it."
Mark 4:5
"Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil."
Mark 4:6
"When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away."
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