Mark 4 Free Bible Version

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1 Jesus began teaching beside the Sea again. So many people came to listen to him that he climbed into a boat and sat in it on the water while the crowd listened from the shore.

1 Y OTRA vez comenzó á enseñar junto á la mar, y se juntó á él mucha gente; tanto, que entrándose él en un barco, se sentó en la mar: y toda la gente estaba en tierra junto á la mar.

2 He illustrated his teachings using many stories.

2 Y les enseñaba por parábolas muchas cosas, y les decía en su doctrina:

3 “Listen,” he said. “A sower went out to sow.

3 Oid: He aquí, el sembrador salió á sembrar.

4 Now as he was scattering the seeds, some fell on the path, and birds came and ate them up.

4 Y aconteció sembrando, que una parte cayó junto al camino; y vinieron las aves del cielo, y la tragaron.

5 Other seeds fell on stony ground where there wasn't much earth. In the shallow soil the plants started growing quickly, but because the soil wasn't deep

5 Y otra parte cayó en pedregales, donde no tenía mucha tierra; y luego salió, porque no tenía la tierra profunda:

6 they were scorched when the sun came up. Since they didn't have any real roots, they soon withered.

6 Mas salido el sol, se quemó; y por cuanto no tenía raíz, se secó.

7 Other seeds fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked the sprouting seeds, so they produced nothing.

7 Y otra parte cayó en espinas; y subieron las espinas, y la ahogaron, y no dió fruto.

8 Other seeds fell on good soil where they sprouted and grew. They produced a harvest of some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred times what was planted.

8 Y otra parte cayó en buena tierra, y dió fruto, que subió y creció: y llevó uno á treinta, y otro á sesenta, y otro á ciento.

9 If you have ears to hear, listen to what I'm saying.”

9 Entonces les dijo: El que tiene oídos para oir, oiga.

10 When he was by himself, his twelve disciples and the others who were with him asked him what the illustrations meant.

10 Y cuando estuvo solo, le preguntaron los que estaban cerca de él con los doce, sobre la parábola.

11 He told them, “The mystery of God's kingdom has been given to you to understand. But outsiders only have the stories,

11 Y les dijo: A vosotros es dado saber el misterio del reino de Dios; mas á los que están fuera, por parábolas todas las cosas;

12 so that even though they see, they don't really ‘see,’ and even though they hear, they don't understand, otherwise they might turn to me and be forgiven.”

12 Para que viendo, vean y no echen de ver; y oyendo, oigan y no entiendan: porque no se conviertan, y les sean perdonados los pecados.

13 “Don't you understand this story?” Jesus asked them. “If you can't, how are you going to understand all the other stories?

13 Y les dijo: ¿No sabéis esta parábola? ¿Cómo, pues, entenderéis todas las parábolas?

14 The sower sows the word.

14 El que siembra [es el que] siembra la palabra.

15 The seeds on the path where the word is sown illustrate those who hear the message, but then Satan immediately comes along and takes away the word that's been sown in them.

15 Y éstos son los de junto al camino: en los que la palabra es sembrada: mas después que la oyeron, luego viene Satanás, y quita la palabra que fué sembrada en sus corazones.

16 Likewise the seeds on the rocky ground illustrate those who hear the word, and happily accept it right away.

16 Y asimismo éstos son los que son sembrados en pedregales: los que cuando han oído la palabra, luego la toman con gozo;

17 But since they have no real roots, they only last for a while until trouble or persecution comes, and then they quickly fall away.

17 Mas no tienen raíz en sí, antes son temporales, que en levantándose la tribulación ó la persecución por causa de la palabra, luego se escandalizan.

18 Those sown among the thorns illustrate those who hear the word,

18 Y éstos son los que son sembrados entre espinas: los que oyen la palabra;

19 but worries of this world, the temptation of wealth, and other distractions choke the growth of the word, and it becomes unproductive.

19 Mas los cuidados de este siglo, y el engaño de las riquezas, y las codicias que hay en las otras cosas, entrando, ahogan la palabra, y se hace infructuosa.

20 But the seeds sown on good soil illustrate those who hear the word, accept it, and are productive—producing thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was originally sown.

20 Y éstos son los que fueron sembrados en buena tierra: los que oyen la palabra, y la reciben, y hacen fruto, uno á treinta, otro á sesenta, y otro á ciento.

21 Who puts a lamp under a bucket, or beneath a bed?” Jesus asked them. “No, you put a lamp up on a lamp-stand.

21 También les dijo: ¿Tráese la antorcha para ser puesta debajo del almud, ó debajo de la cama? ¿No [es] para ser puesta en el candelero?

22 Everything that is hidden will be revealed, and everything that is secret will be brought out into the open.

22 Porque no hay nada oculto que no haya de ser manifestado, ni secreto que no haya de descubrirse.

23 If you have ears to hear, listen to what I'm saying!

23 Si alguno tiene oídos para oir, oiga.

24 Pay attention to what you're hearing,” he told them, “for you will be given according to how much you want to receive, measure for measure.

24 Les dijo también: Mirad lo que oís: con la medida que medís, os medirán otros, y será añadido á vosotros los que oís.

25 More will be given to those who already have understanding, but those who don't want to know will have what little understanding they have taken from them.

25 Porque al que tiene, le será dado; y al que no tiene, aun lo que tiene le será quitado.

26 God's kingdom is like a man sowing seed in the ground,” Jesus said.

26 Decía más: Así es el reino de Dios, como si un hombre echa simiente en la tierra;

27 “He goes to bed and gets up, day after day, but the man has no knowledge of how the seeds sprout and grow.

27 Y duerme, y se levanta de noche y de día, y la simiente brota y crece como él no sabe.

28 The earth produces a harvest by itself. First a shoot appears, then the heads of grain, and then the heads of grain ripen.

28 Porque de suyo fructifica la tierra, primero hierba, luego espiga, después grano lleno en la espiga;

29 When the grain is ripe, the farmer reaps it with a sickle, because the harvest is ready.

29 Y cuando el fruto fuere producido, luego se mete la hoz, porque la siega es llegada.

30 What can we compare God's kingdom to? What illustration shall we use?” he asked.

30 Y decía: ¿A qué haremos semejante el reino de Dios? ¿ó con qué parábola le compararemos?

31 “It's like a mustard seed, the tiniest seed of all.

31 Es como el grano de mostaza, que, cuando se siembra en tierra, es la más pequeña de todas las simientes que hay en la tierra;

32 But when it's sown it grows into a plant that's larger than other plants. It has branches big enough that birds can roost in its shade.”

32 Mas después de sembrado, sube, y se hace la mayor de todas las legumbres, y echa grandes ramas, de tal manera que las aves del cielo puedan morar bajo su sombra.

33 Jesus used many of these illustrated stories when he spoke to the people so they would understand as much as they could.

33 Y con muchas tales parábolas les hablaba la palabra, conforme á lo que podían oir.

34 In fact, when he spoke publicly, he only used stories; however in private he explained everything to his disciples.

34 Y sin parábola no les hablaba; mas á sus discípulos en particular declaraba todo.

35 Later that day, in the evening, he said to his disciples, “Let's go across to the other side of the Sea.”

35 Y les dijo aquel día cuando fué tarde: Pasemos de la otra parte.

36 Leaving the crowd behind, the disciples went with Jesus, just as he was, and got into a boat. Other boats went with them.

36 Y despachando la multitud, le tomaron como estaba, en el barco; y había también con él otros barquitos.

37 Soon a terrible storm started blowing, and waves crashed against the boat, filling it with water.

37 Y se levantó una grande tempestad de viento, y echaba las olas en el barco, de tal manera que ya se henchía.

38 Jesus was asleep in the stern, resting his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting at him, “Teacher, don't you care that we're about to drown?”

38 Y él estaba en la popa, durmiendo sobre un cabezal, y le despertaron, y le dicen: ¿Maestro, no tienes cuidado que perecemos?

39 Jesus woke up. He told the wind to die down and told the waves, “Be quiet! Be still.” The wind stopped, and the water became completely calm.

39 Y levantándose, increpó al viento, y dijo á la mar: Calla, enmudece. Y cesó el viento, y fué hecha grande bonanza.

40 “Why are you so frightened? Haven't you learned to trust me?” he asked them.

40 Y á ellos dijo: ¿Por qué estáis así amedrentados? ¿Cómo no tenéis fe?

41 They were stunned and terrified. They asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

41 Y temieron con gran temor, y decían el uno al otro. ¿Quién es éste, que aun el viento y la mar le obedecen?

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Quotes verse 4:28 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XVIII)
… if they do not call Himself the Son of the Creator of the world, that is, His Word, through whom the wood fructifies, and the fountains gush forth, and the earth gives "first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear."
Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)
Quotes verse 4:13 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XLIV)
Therefore also another evangelist saith that He reproved them, because they do not understand; saying, "How knew ye not the parable?" But not for this cause only doth He speak in parables, but that He may also make His discourse more vivid, and fix the memory of it in them more perfectly, and bring the things before their sight.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

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