Daily Discovery Bible Study

10 When he was by himself, his twelve disciples and the others who were with him asked him what the illustrations meant.

11 He told them, “The mystery of God's kingdom has been given to you to understand. But outsiders only have the stories,12 so that even though they see, they don't really ‘see,’ and even though they hear, they don't understand, otherwise they might turn to me and be forgiven.”

13 “Don't you understand this story?” Jesus asked them. “If you can't, how are you going to understand all the other stories?

14 The sower sows the word.15 The seeds on the path where the word is sown illustrate those who hear the message, but then Satan immediately comes along and takes away the word that's been sown in them.16 Likewise the seeds on the rocky ground illustrate those who hear the word, and happily accept it right away.17 But since they have no real roots, they only last for a while until trouble or persecution comes, and then they quickly fall away.18 Those sown among the thorns illustrate those who hear the word,19 but worries of this world, the temptation of wealth, and other distractions choke the growth of the word, and it becomes unproductive.20 But the seeds sown on good soil illustrate those who hear the word, accept it, and are productive—producing thirty, sixty, and hundred times what was originally sown.

Mark 4: 10-20