Mark 4:3
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
KJV
ἀκούετε. ἰδοὺ ἐξῆλθεν ὁ σπείρων σπεῖραι.
Greek NT
Audite : ecce exiit seminans ad seminandum.
Vulgate
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:
ASV
Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
σπείρω
speiro
verb · 53×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: σπείρων | WH/NIV: σπείρων | Treg/RP: + τοῦ
- σπείρων — SBLGNT
- σπείρων — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τοῦ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
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Parable
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§672Before his Ascension Christ affirmed that the hour had not yet come for the glorious establishment of the messianic kingdom awaited by Israel561 which, according to the prophets, was to bring all men the definitive order of justice, love and peace.562 According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness, but also a time still marked by "distress" and…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:6 — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
- Deut 4:1 — Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth
- Jas 2:5 — Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
- John 4:35 — Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
- Luke 8:5 — A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
- Mark 4:9 — And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
- Mark 4:14 — The sower soweth the word.
- Mark 4:26 — And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
- Mark 4:26 — And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
- Matt 13:26 — But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.