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Chapter 4 (285) GOSPEL OF MARK
hen he was alone, those who were around
him together with the Twelve, asked him about the parables. *Jesus told them, “The myster- ies of the Kingdom of God are given for you to know, but to those who are outside, everything comes in parables, so that seeing they may indeed see, and yet not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and yet not understand, otherwise they might repent and their sins be forgiven.” Jesus asked them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables? The farmer sows the word. Some people are like the seed sown by the edge of the road where the word is sown. As soon as they have heard, Satan comes and takes away the word which had been sown in their hearts. Likewise, those who are sown on the rocky places are those who receive the word with joy as soon as they hear it. But they have no root in themselves and only last for a short while. When oppression or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately stumble. Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are the people who have heard the word, but the wor- ries of this age, the deceit of wealth, and the desire to possess things, enter in and choke the word. Thus, it produces no fruit. The seeds which were
Monday of the 14th Week: At that time,
the disciples came to Jesus, when he was alone, and they asked him about the parable of the sower ...*
Per. 16.