Mark 4:3

Legacy Standard Bible

"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.

King James Version (1611)
Hearken, Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

King James Version
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

English Standard Version
"Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

New American Standard Bible
"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

New Century Version
"Listen! A farmer went out to plant his seed.

Amplified Bible
"Listen! A sower went out to sow seed;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

Berean Standard Bible
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Contemporary English Version
Now listen! A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Darby Translation
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow seed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe.

George Lamsa Translation
Listen; Behold, a sower went out to sow.

Good News Translation
"Listen! Once there was a man who went out to sow grain.

Lexham English Bible
"Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Literal Translation
Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

American Standard Version
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:

Bible in Basic English
A man went out to put seed in the earth:

Hebrew Names Version
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went forth to sow,

International Standard Version
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Etheridge Translation
Listen: Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

Murdock Translation
Hear ye: Behold a sower went forth to sow.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe:

English Revised Version
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:

World English Bible
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went forth to sow,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Behold, a sower went out to sow.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Listen: the sower goes out to sow.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here ye. Lo! a man sowynge goith out to sowe.

Update Bible Version
Listen: Look, the sower went forth to sow:

Webster's Bible Translation
Hearken; Behold, a sower went out to sow:

New English Translation
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

New King James Version
"Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

New Living Translation
"Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.

New Life Bible
"Listen! A man went out to plant seed.

New Revised Standard
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hearken! Lo! the sower went forth to sow;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Revised Standard Version
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Herken to. Beholde There wet out a sower to sowe.

Young's Literal Translation
`Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Herken to, beholde, there wente out a sower to sowe:

Mace New Testament (1729)
give your attention to what I say, a sower went out to sow: as he sowed,

THE MESSAGE
"Listen. What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn't put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled among the weeds and nothing came of it. Some fell on good earth and came up with a flourish, producing a harvest exceeding his wildest dreams.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"A farmer went out to plant his fields.

Contextual Overview

¹And 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. ²And 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; ⁴and it happened that as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵And 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. ⁶And after the sun rose, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. ⁷And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. ⁸And other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they were yielding a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." ⁹And He was saying, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." ¹⁰And when He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hearken: Mark 4:9, Mark 4:23, Mark 7:14, Mark 7:16, Deuteronomy 4:1, Psalms 34:11, Psalms 45:10, Proverbs 7:24, Proverbs 8:32, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:12, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 55:2, Acts 2:14, Hebrews 2:1-3, James 2:5, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:29

there: Mark 4:14, Mark 4:26-29, Ecclesiastes 11:6, Isaiah 28:23-26, Matthew 13:3, Matthew 13:24, Matthew 13:26, Luke 8:5-8, John 4:35-38, 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a man with the help of Yahweh."

Genesis 4:11
And now, cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Numbers 18:12
All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to Yahweh, I give them to you.

1 Kings 17:7
Now it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

Nehemiah 13:6
But during all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to the king. After some time, however, I asked leave from the king,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hearken, behold, there went out a sower to sow. By whom is meant Jesus Christ, who came forth from God as a teacher, and went out into the land of Judea to preach the Gospel, which is sowing spiritual things among men; and this may be also applicable to any faithful minister of the word.

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.