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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

马可福音 4:1

撒種的比喻(太13:1~9;路8:4~8)耶穌又在海邊教導人。有一大群人聚集到他那裡,因此他上船坐下來。船在海中,群眾都朝著海站在岸上。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   The Topic Concordance - Bearing Fruit;   Word of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Parables;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocalyptic;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Allegory;   Christ, Christology;   Education in Bible Times;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Parables;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronology of the New Testament;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Ships and Boats;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Appreciation (of Christ);   Boat (2);   Discourse;   Doctrines;   Gestures;   Gospels;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Mental Characteristics;   Multitude;   Popularity ;   Population;   Preaching (2);   Premeditation;   Teaching ;   Teaching of Jesus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Parable;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mark, the Gospel According to;   Ships and Boats;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 又 在 海 边 教 训 人 。 有 许 多 人 到 他 那 里 聚 集 , 他 只 得 上 船 坐 下 。 船 在 海 里 , 众 人 都 靠 近 海 , 站 在 岸 上 。

Contextual Overview

1 Again Jesus began teaching by the lake. A great crowd gathered around him, so he sat down in a boat near the shore. All the people stayed on the shore close to the water. 2 Jesus taught them many things, using stories. He said, 3 "Listen! A farmer went out to plant his seed. 4 While he was planting, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some seed fell on rocky ground where there wasn't much dirt. That seed grew very fast, because the ground was not deep. 6 But when the sun rose, the plants dried up because they did not have deep roots. 7 Some other seed fell among thorny weeds, which grew and choked the good plants. So those plants did not produce a crop. 8 Some other seed fell on good ground and began to grow. It got taller and produced a crop. Some plants made thirty times more, some made sixty times more, and some made a hundred times more." 9 Then Jesus said, "Let those with ears use them and listen!" 10 Later, when Jesus was alone, the twelve apostles and others around him asked him about the stories.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he began: Mark 2:13, Matthew 13:1, Matthew 13:2-9, Luke 8:4-8

so that: Luke 5:1-3

Reciprocal: Matthew 5:1 - seeing Mark 2:2 - straightway Mark 4:36 - even Luke 5:3 - he sat

Cross-References

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."
Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."
Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."
Numbers 31:17
Kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations.
1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because the things Cain did were evil, and the things his brother did were good.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he began again to teach by the sea side,.... He went out of the house where he was at Capernaum, the same day he had the above discourse with the Scribes and Pharisees, and on which his mother and: brethren came to speak with him; and from thence he went where he had been before, and taught the people; namely, to the sea side, the shore of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias:

and there was gathered unto him a great multitude; which followed him from the house, and from other parts of the city, and perhaps from the adjacent places:

so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; in the ship at sea, at some little distance from the shore; the sea of Tiberias being rather a lake, and within land, had no tide, and so was still and quiet:

and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land; stood on the land, all along the sea shore; :-,

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-9.

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IV.

The parable of the sower, 1-9.

Its interpretation, 10-20.

The use we should make of the instructions we receive, 21-26.

The parable of the progressively growing seed, 26-29.

Of the mustard seed, 30-34.

Christ and his disciples are overtaken by a storm, 35-38.

He rebukes the wind and the sea, and produces fair weather,

39-41.

NOTES ON CHAP. IV.

Verse Mark 4:2. He taught them many things by parables — See every part of this parable of the sower explained on Matthew 13:1, &c.


 
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