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.
1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.
2 He illustrated his teachings using many stories.
2 Y les enseñaba por parábolas muchas cosas, y les decía en su doctrina:
2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
3 “Listen,” he said. “A sower went out to sow.
3 Oid: He aquí, el sembrador salió á sembrar.
3 “Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
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.
4 As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
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:
5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
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.
6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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.
7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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.
8 Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
9 If you have ears to hear, listen to what I'm saying.”
9 Entonces les dijo: El que tiene oídos para oir, oiga.
9 He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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.
10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
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;
11 He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
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.
12 that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”
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?
13 He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
14 El que siembra [es el que] siembra la palabra.
14 The farmer sows the word.
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.
15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
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;
16 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.
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.
17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
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;
18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,
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.
19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
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.
20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
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?
21 He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?
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.
22 For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light.
23 If you have ears to hear, listen to what I'm saying!
23 Si alguno tiene oídos para oir, oiga.
23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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.
24 He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear.
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.
25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”
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;
26 He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
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.
27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
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;
28 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
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.
29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
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?
30 He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
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;
31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
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.
32 yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”
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.
33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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.
34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
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.
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”
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.
36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
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.
37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
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?
38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
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.
39 He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.
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?
40 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”
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?
41 They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Cross references (41)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Mark 2:13; Luke 5:1–3; Luke 8:4–10; Matthew 13:1–15; Mark 3:7
- 2 Matthew 13:34–35; Mark 3:23; Mark 4:11; Matthew 13:10; Matthew 13:3
- 3 James 2:5; 1 Corinthians 3:6–9; John 4:35–38; Matthew 13:26; Mark 4:26–29
- 4 Matthew 13:19; Mark 4:15; Matthew 13:4; Luke 8:12; Genesis 15:11
- 5 Ezekiel 36:26; Luke 8:6; Luke 8:13; Hosea 10:12; Matthew 13:5–6
- 6 Jeremiah 17:5–8; James 1:11; Jonah 4:8; Isaiah 25:4; Colossians 2:7
- 7 Jeremiah 4:3; 1 John 2:15–16; Genesis 3:17–18; Luke 12:15; Luke 21:34
- 8 John 15:5; Colossians 1:6; Genesis 26:12; Mark 4:20; Philippians 1:11
- 9 Matthew 11:15; Mark 4:23–24; Revelation 3:22; Revelation 3:13; Revelation 3:6
- 10 Matthew 13:10–17; Luke 8:9–15; Mark 7:17; Matthew 13:36; Mark 4:34
- 11 Matthew 11:25; Luke 8:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; James 1:16–18; 1 Corinthians 5:12–13
- 12 Isaiah 6:9–10; Isaiah 44:18; Matthew 13:14–15; Jeremiah 5:21; Deuteronomy 29:4
- 13 Revelation 3:19; Luke 8:11–15; Matthew 13:51–52; 1 Corinthians 3:1–2; Hebrews 5:11–14
- 14 Acts 8:4; Matthew 13:19; 1 Peter 1:23–25; Luke 8:11; Matthew 13:37
- 15 1 Peter 5:8; Matthew 13:19; 2 Corinthians 2:11; Luke 8:12; 2 Corinthians 4:3–4
- 16 Luke 8:13; Matthew 13:20–21; Mark 6:20; John 5:35; Ezekiel 33:31–32
- 17 Matthew 11:6; 1 Thessalonians 3:3–5; Revelation 2:10; Matthew 12:31; John 15:2–7
- 18 Luke 8:14; Jeremiah 4:3; Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:7
- 19 1 John 2:15–17; 1 Timothy 6:9–10; 1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Peter 4:2–3; Philippians 4:6
- 20 Colossians 1:10; Luke 8:15; John 15:4–5; Matthew 13:23; Mark 4:8
- 21 Matthew 5:15; Luke 11:33; Luke 8:16; Isaiah 60:1–3; Ephesians 5:3–15
- 22 Luke 8:17; Ecclesiastes 12:14; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Psalm 78:2–4; Matthew 10:26–27
- 23 Matthew 11:15; Mark 4:9; Revelation 2:29; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 2:17
- 24 Hebrews 2:1; Luke 8:18; Matthew 7:2; 2 Corinthians 9:6; Acts 17:11
- 25 Matthew 13:12; Luke 8:18; Matthew 25:28–29; John 15:2; Luke 16:9–12
- 26 Matthew 13:24; 1 Corinthians 3:6–9; 1 Peter 1:23–25; Luke 8:11; Luke 8:5
- 27 Ecclesiastes 11:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; Ecclesiastes 8:17; 1 Corinthians 15:37–38; John 3:7–8
- 28 Philippians 1:9–11; Hosea 6:3; Mark 4:31–32; Colossians 1:10; Matthew 13:26
- 29 Joel 3:13; Matthew 13:30; Isaiah 57:1–2; Matthew 13:40–43; Job 5:26
- 30 Matthew 13:31–32; Luke 13:18–21; Lamentations 2:13; Matthew 13:24; Matthew 11:16
- 31 Acts 19:20; Genesis 22:17–18; Luke 13:18–19; Daniel 2:44–45; Malachi 1:11
- 32 Daniel 4:20–22; Daniel 4:10–14; Ezekiel 31:3–10; Psalm 80:9–11; Psalm 91:1
- 33 Matthew 13:34–35; John 16:12; 1 Corinthians 3:1–2; Hebrews 5:11–14
- 34 John 16:25; Luke 24:27; Mark 4:10; Matthew 13:36–43; Matthew 15:15–20
- 35 Matthew 8:18; Luke 8:25; Luke 8:22; Matthew 8:23–27; Matthew 14:22
- 36 Mark 4:1; Mark 3:9; Mark 5:2; Mark 5:21
- 37 Matthew 8:23–24; Job 1:19; Luke 8:22–23; Jonah 1:4; Psalm 107:23–31
- 38 1 Peter 5:7; Hebrews 4:15; Matthew 8:25; Isaiah 54:6–8; Luke 8:24
- 39 Psalm 107:29; Psalm 89:9; Psalm 29:10; Psalm 65:7; Jeremiah 5:22
- 40 Luke 8:25; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Isaiah 43:2; Matthew 16:8
- 41 Luke 8:25; Job 38:11; 1 Samuel 12:18–20; Jonah 1:9–10; Jonah 1:15–16
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… 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."
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.
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