MODERN LITERAL VERSION

4:1 And again he began to teach by the sea. And a large crowd was gathered together to him, so-that having stepped onto the ship, he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were next to the sea upon the land.

4:2 And he taught them many things in parables and said to them in his teaching,
4:3 Listen: behold, the sower went forth to sow,
4:4 and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road and the birds came and devoured it.
4:5 And other seed fell upon the rocky areas, where it did not have much earth, and immediately it rises up, because it had no depth of earth;
4:6 and when the sun had risen, it was burnt, and it dried up because it had no root.
4:7 And other seed fell among the thorns and the thorns shot up and choked it and it gave no fruit.
4:8 And other seed fell into the good soil and gave fruit, shooting up and growing, and gave forth, by thirty times and by sixty times and by a hundred times as much.
4:9 And he said, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

4:10 And when he happened to be alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked concerning the parable.
4:11 And he said to them, You* have been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things happen in parables;
4:12 that* seeing, they may see and yet may not know, and hearing, they may hear and yet may not understand; lest they should turn again and their sins might be forgiven them.

4:13 And he says to them, Do you* not know this parable? And how will you* know all the parables?
4:14 The sower is sowing the word.
4:15 And these are those by the road, where the word is sown, and whenever they hear, immediately the Adversary comes and takes away the word which has been sown in their hearts.

4:16 And likewise these are those who are sown upon the rocky areas, who, whenever they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy;
4:17 and they have no root in themselves, but is temporary. Thereafter, when affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately they are offended.

4:18 And these are those who are sown among the thorns; these are those who hear the word,
4:19 and the anxieties of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts concerning all the rest of the worldly things going into their hearts, are choking the word and it becomes unfruitful.

4:20 And these are those who were sown upon the good soil; who hear the word and accept it and bear-fruit, one thirty times and one sixty times and one a hundred times.

4:21 And he said to them, Do you come with a lamp that* it may be placed under a peck container or under the bed? No, you bring it that* it may be placed upon the lamp-stand.
4:22 For* if it is not apparent, nothing is hidden, nor has anything secret happened, but that* it might not be made apparent.
4:23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

4:24 And he said to them, Beware what you* are hearing; with what measure you* measure, it will be measured to you*, and to you* who hear, more will be added.
4:25 For* whoever has, to him will be given and he who does not have, then what he has will be taken from him.
{Mk 4:26-29.}

4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man cast seed upon the earth;
4:27 and he should sleep and should arise night and day and the seed may sprout and should lengthen, he does not know how.
4:28 For* the earth is bearing-fruit by herself; first the blade, thereafter the tops, then the full grain in the tops.
4:29 But whenever the fruit is giving way, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest is standing ready.
{Mt 13:24-30.}
{Mk 4:30-34 & Mt 13:31-35.}

4:30 And he said, To what may be similar to the kingdom of God? Or in what parable may we put it in comparison?
4:31 It is as a kernel of a mustard-seed, which, whenever it is sown upon the earth, though it is little less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,
4:32 yet whenever it has been sown, it shoots up and becomes greater than all the herbs and produces great branches; so-that the birds of the heaven are able to nest under its shadow.

4:33 And he spoke the word to them with many such parables, as they were able to hear it;
4:34 and he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately he interpreted all things to his disciples.
{Mt 13:36-53.}
{Mk 4:35-41 & Mt:8:18-27 & Lk 8:22-25 Sea of Galilee.}

4:35 And in that day, when it became evening, he says to them, We should go over to the other side.
4:36 And leaving the crowd, they take him with them, as he was in the ship. But also other small-boats were with him.
4:37 And there becomes a great gale of wind and the waves cast water into the ship, so-that the ship now is filling with water.
4:38 And he himself was upon the stern, sleeping upon the cushion and they arouse him from his sleep and say to him, Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?

4:39 And he was aroused and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Be silent. Hush. And the wind paused and there became a great calm.
4:40 And he said to them, Why are you* so cowardly? How do you* not have faith?

4:41 And they feared with a great fear and said to one another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea are obeying* him?
{Mk 5:1-21 & Mt 8:28-34 & Lk 8:26-40 Gergesa.}