Mark 4:3

Plain English Version

“You mob listen to me now. A man wanted to grow some seed food in a garden.

Cross References

Psalm 34:11

Come here everyone, and listen to me. I will teach you to respect God properly.

Matthew 13:24

Then Jesus told the people another picture story. He said, “This story shows you something about God’s family. A farmer planted some good food seeds in his garden.

Matthew 13:26

The good seeds grew into good plants, but at the same time the rubbish plants started to grow there too. Those rubbish plants look like the good plants when they are young, but when they get big we can’t eat their seeds. They are too cheeky.

Mark 4:14

Listen to me again. In my story, a man threw the seeds into his garden, to grow some food. He is a picture of somebody that tells God’s word to people.

Mark 4:2

He told them picture stories to teach them lots of things. Jesus told them this story. He said,

Mark 4:23

You’ve all got ears, so you have to listen to me properly, and take notice of my words.”

Mark 4:4

He threw the seeds all over the garden. Some seeds went too far and fell on the road. The road was hard, so the seeds couldn’t grow there. Some birds saw those seeds lying there, so they ate them and finished them up.

Mark 4:9

Then Jesus said, “You’ve got ears, so you have to listen to me properly, and take notice of my words.”

Acts 2:14

Then Peter got up to talk to those people, and Jesus’s 11 other special workers got up too. Peter said in a loud voice, “All you Jewish mob, and all you people that live in Jerusalem, listen to me properly now, and I’ll tell you the true story.

James 2:5

Listen to me, my good Christian friends. God picks out poor people, and he helps them to trust him properly. He promises to give them a good place in his family. He promises that to everybody that loves him. In the end those poor people will be really rich.