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New King James Version (NKJV)

Mark 4
⁴ And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it.
⁵ Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth.
⁶ But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away.
⁷ And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop.
⁸ But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred."
⁹ And He said to them, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
¹⁰ But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable.
¹¹ And He said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables,
¹² so that ’Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.’ "
¹³ And He said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
¹⁴ The sower sows the word.