Mark 4 Unlocked Literal Bible

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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909

1 Again he began to teach beside the sea, and a large crowd gathered around him. He stepped into a boat that was on the sea, and he sat down in it. The whole crowd was on the shore beside the sea.

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 taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching, this is what he said to them.

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

3 “Listen, the farmer went out to sow his seed.

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

4 As he sowed, some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

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

5 Other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. Immediately it sprang up, because it did not have deep soil.

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

6 But when the sun rose, the plants were scorched, and because they had no root, they dried up.

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

7 Other seed fell among the thorn plants. The thorn plants grew up and choked it, and it did not produce a crop.

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

8 Other seed fell into good soil and it produced a crop growing up and increasing thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times.”

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 Then he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”

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

10 When Jesus was alone, those who were close to him and with the twelve asked him about the parables.

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

11 He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God. But to those outside everything is in parables,

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 when they look, yes they look, but do not see, and so that when they hear, yes they hear, but do not understand, or else they would turn and God would forgive them.”

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 Then he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables?

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

14 The farmer who sows his seed is the one who sows the word.

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

15 These are the ones that fall beside the road, where the word was sown, but when they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was 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 These are the ones that are sown on rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.

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

17 They have no root in themselves, but endure for a short time. Then tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, and immediately they stumble.

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 The others are the ones that were sown among the thorns. They hear the word,

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

19 but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires of other things enter in and choke the word, and it does not produce a crop.

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 Then those that were sown in the good soil are the ones who hear the word and receive it, and they produce crops—thirty, sixty, or a hundred times what was 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 Jesus said to them, “Do you bring a lamp inside the house to put it under a basket, or under the bed? You bring it in and you put it on a lampstand.

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 For nothing is hidden that will not be known, and nothing is secret that will not come 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 anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

23 Si alguno tiene oídos para oir, oiga.

24 He said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear, for the measure you use will be measured to you, and more will be added to you.

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 Because whoever has, to him will be given more, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken.”

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

26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who sows his seed on the ground.

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

27 He sleeps at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

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

28 The earth bears grain by itself: First the blade, then the ear, then the mature grain in the ear.

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

29 When the crop is ripe, he immediately sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

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

30 Again he said, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to explain it?

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

31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.

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 Yet, when it is sown, it grows and becomes greater than all the garden plants, and it forms large branches, so that the birds of heaven can make their nests 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 With many parables like this he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to understand,

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

34 and he did not speak to them without a parable. But when he was alone, he explained everything to his own disciples.

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

35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”

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

36 So they left the crowd, taking Jesus with them, just as he was, in the boat. There were other boats going along with him.

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

37 Just then a violent windstorm arose and the waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was almost full of 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 But Jesus himself was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him up, saying, “Teacher, do you not care that we are about to die?”

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

39 He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

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

40 Then he said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still not have faith?”

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

41 They were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, because even the wind and the sea 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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