Mark 4:3 Cross References - Riverside

³ "Listen; a sower went out to sow,

³ He spoke at length to them in illustrations. "A sower," he said, "went out to sow.

²⁴ Another illustration he put before them. He said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

²⁶ When the blades shot up and formed grain, the weeds also appeared.

⁹ He said to them, "Let him who has ears to hear with hear."

¹⁴ The sower sows the word.

²³ If any one has ears to hear with, let him hear."

²⁶ He said again, "The kingdom of God is like this: A man casts seed on the ground ²⁷ and goes on sleeping by night and rising by day, and the seed sprouts and grows up, he knows not how. ²⁸ The ground of itself yields fruit: first the stalk, then the ear, then comes the full grain in the ear. ²⁹ When the grain is ripe immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest has come."

¹⁴ Then, calling the crowd to him again, he said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. ¹⁵ There is nothing from outside a man that can go into him and defile him, but the things that come out of the man are the things that defile the man."

⁵ "A sower went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some seed fell along the roadside and was trodden on, and the birds of heaven ate it up. ⁶ Other seed fell on the rock, and when it sprang up it withered away because it had no moisture. ⁷ Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. ⁸ Other seed fell into the good ground, and grew up and yielded a harvest a hundred fold." When he said this, he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear, hear."

³⁵ Do you not say that there are still four months and then comes harvest? Why, lift up your eyes, I tell you, and look on the fields, for they are white for harvest! ³⁶ Already the reaper is gaining wages and is gathering a harvest for life eternal, that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. ³⁷ Here the saying is true, that 'One is sower and another is reaper.' ³⁸ I have sent you to reap what you have not labored for. Others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

¹⁴ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: "Fellow Jews, and all of you who live in Jerusalem, understand this and listen to my words.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So then neither is he who planted anything nor he who watered, but God who makes the seed grow. ⁸ Each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. ⁹ We are God's fellow workers: you are God's farm God's building.

¹ FOR this reason we should give special attention to the things that we have heard, so as not to drift away from them. ² For if the message spoken through angels was sure and every violation and disobedience received merited punishment, ³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the beginning was spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

⁷ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.

¹¹ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.

²⁹ Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.