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Mark 4:20 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. "
Mark 4:20
Verse in Context
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And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
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Mark 4:1
"And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land."
Mark 4:2
"And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,"
Mark 4:3
"Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:"
Mark 4:4
"And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up."
Mark 4:5
"And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:"
Mark 4:6
"But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away."
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