Mark 4:3

Literal Standard Version

"Listen, behold, the sower went forth to sow;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.

King James Version (1611)
Hearken, Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

King James Version
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

English Standard Version
"Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

New American Standard Bible
"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

New Century Version
"Listen! A farmer went out to plant his seed.

Amplified Bible
"Listen! A sower went out to sow seed;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

Legacy Standard Bible
"Listen to this! Behold, the sower went out to sow;

Berean Standard Bible
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Contemporary English Version
Now listen! A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.

Darby Translation
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow seed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe.

George Lamsa Translation
Listen; Behold, a sower went out to sow.

Good News Translation
"Listen! Once there was a man who went out to sow grain.

Lexham English Bible
"Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Literal Translation
Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

American Standard Version
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:

Bible in Basic English
A man went out to put seed in the earth:

Hebrew Names Version
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went forth to sow,

International Standard Version
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Etheridge Translation
Listen: Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

Murdock Translation
Hear ye: Behold a sower went forth to sow.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hearken: Beholde, there went out a sower to sowe:

English Revised Version
Hearken: Behold, the sower went forth to sow:

World English Bible
"Listen! Behold, the farmer went forth to sow,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Behold, a sower went out to sow.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Listen: the sower goes out to sow.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here ye. Lo! a man sowynge goith out to sowe.

Update Bible Version
Listen: Look, the sower went forth to sow:

Webster's Bible Translation
Hearken; Behold, a sower went out to sow:

New English Translation
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

New King James Version
"Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

New Living Translation
"Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.

New Life Bible
"Listen! A man went out to plant seed.

New Revised Standard
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hearken! Lo! the sower went forth to sow;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Revised Standard Version
"Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Herken to. Beholde There wet out a sower to sowe.

Young's Literal Translation
`Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Herken to, beholde, there wente out a sower to sowe:

Mace New Testament (1729)
give your attention to what I say, a sower went out to sow: as he sowed,

THE MESSAGE
"Listen. What do you make of this? A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn't put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled among the weeds and nothing came of it. Some fell on good earth and came up with a flourish, producing a harvest exceeding his wildest dreams.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"A farmer went out to plant his fields.

Contextual Overview

¹And again He began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered to Him a great multitude, so that He, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land, ²and He taught them many things in allegories, and He said to them in His teaching: ³"Listen, behold, the sower went forth to sow;⁴and it came to pass, in the sowing, some fell by the way, and the birds of the sky came and devoured it; ⁵and other fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of having no depth of earth, ⁶and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of having no root it withered; ⁷and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it gave no fruit; ⁸and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it was bearing, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one a hundred." ⁹And He said to them, "He who is having ears to hear—let him hear." ¹⁰And when He was alone, those around Him, with the Twelve, asked Him of the allegory,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hearken: Mark 4:9, Mark 4:23, Mark 7:14, Mark 7:16, Deuteronomy 4:1, Psalms 34:11, Psalms 45:10, Proverbs 7:24, Proverbs 8:32, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:12, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 55:2, Acts 2:14, Hebrews 2:1-3, James 2:5, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:29

there: Mark 4:14, Mark 4:26-29, Ecclesiastes 11:6, Isaiah 28:23-26, Matthew 13:3, Matthew 13:24, Matthew 13:26, Luke 8:5-8, John 4:35-38, 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceives and bears Cain, and says, "I have acquired a man by YHWH";

Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;

Numbers 18:12
all the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat—their first-[fruits] which they give to YHWH—I have given them to you.

1 Kings 17:7
And it comes to pass, at the end of [the] days, that the brook dries up, for there has been no rain in the land,

Nehemiah 13:6
And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I came to the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hearken, behold, there went out a sower to sow. By whom is meant Jesus Christ, who came forth from God as a teacher, and went out into the land of Judea to preach the Gospel, which is sowing spiritual things among men; and this may be also applicable to any faithful minister of the word.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-9.

See the parable of the sower explained in the notes at Matthew 13:1-9.