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Lexham English Bible

Mark 4:23

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Sermon;   The Topic Concordance - Kingdom of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Parables;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Ear (2);   Hearing;   Physical ;   Teaching of Jesus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ear;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen.”
King James Version (1611)
If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
King James Version
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
English Standard Version
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
New American Standard Bible
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
New Century Version
Let those with ears use them and listen!
Amplified Bible
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear and heed My words."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Legacy Standard Bible
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Berean Standard Bible
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Contemporary English Version
If you have ears, pay attention!
Complete Jewish Bible
Those who have ears to hear with, let them hear!"
Darby Translation
If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
Easy-to-Read Version
You people who hear me, listen!
Geneva Bible (1587)
If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
George Lamsa Translation
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
Good News Translation
Listen, then, if you have ears!"
Literal Translation
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
American Standard Version
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Bible in Basic English
If any man has ears, let him give ear.
Hebrew Names Version
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Murdock Translation
If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If any man haue eares to heare, let hym heare.
English Revised Version
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
World English Bible
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Weymouth's New Testament
Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ony man haue eeris of heryng, here he.
Update Bible Version
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
Webster's Bible Translation
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
New English Translation
If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"
New King James Version
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
New Living Translation
Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand."
New Life Bible
You have ears, then listen!"
New Revised Standard
Let anyone with ears to hear listen!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If any one hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Revised Standard Version
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf eny man have eares to heare let him heare.
Young's Literal Translation
If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so hath eares to heare, let him heare.
Mace New Testament (1729)
if any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
THE MESSAGE
"Are you listening to this? Really listening?
Simplified Cowboy Version
If you got ears, you'd best use them for listening to what I'm saying."

Contextual Overview

21 And he said to them, "Surely a lamp is not brought so that it may be put under a bushel basket or under a bed, is it? Is it not so that it may be put on a lampstand? 22 For nothing is secret except so that it may be revealed, nor has become hidden except so that it will come to light. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" 24 And he said to them, "Take care what you hear! With the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you, and will be added to you. 25 For whoever has, more will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him." 26 And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground. 27 And he sleeps and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he does not know how. 28 By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the crop permits, he sends in the sickle right away, because the harvest has come." 30 And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or by what parable can we present it?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 4:9, Matthew 11:15, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:17, Revelation 2:29

Reciprocal: Proverbs 5:1 - attend Matthew 13:9 - General Mark 4:3 - Hearken Mark 7:16 - General Luke 8:18 - heed

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
"You shall not murder.
Leviticus 19:18
You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge against your fellow citizens; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I am Yahweh.
Numbers 23:18
Then he uttered his oracle, and said, "Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor!
Judges 9:7
And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and he cried out loud and said to them, "Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. What is now delivered, being very momentous and important; see Matthew 11:15.


 
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