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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Mark 3
³³ Answering them, He *said, "Who are My mother and My brothers?"
³⁴ Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, "Behold My mother and My brothers!
³⁵ For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother."
Mark 4
¹ He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land.
² And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,
³ "Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;
⁴ as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.
⁵ Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil.
⁶ And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
⁷ Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
⁸ Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."