Mark 4:3

Jesus calls listeners to attend as he tells of a farmer going out to sow. It matters because the parable of the sower illustrates how people respond to God's word.

Cross-references · 27

• 1 Cor 3:6–9I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
• John 4:35–38Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Deut 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
• Mark 4:26–29He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
• Matt 13:26But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
• Luke 8:5–8“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
• Matt 13:24He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
• Rev 2:29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
• Mark 4:23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Prov 7:24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
• Matt 13:3He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
• Isa 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
• Mark 7:14–15He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
• Heb 2:1–3Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Acts 2:14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
• Rev 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
• Mark 4:9He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
• Isa 28:23–26Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
• Isa 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
• Isa 55:1–2“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
• Mark 4:14The farmer sows the word.
• Ps 34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
• Prov 8:32“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
• Ps 45:10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
• Rev 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

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