撒種的比喻 |
4:1 | [NASB] He began to teach again by the sea. And such a very large crowd gathered to Him that He got into a boat in the sea and sat down; and the whole crowd was by the sea on the land. |
4:2 | [NASB] And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching, |
4:3 | [NASB] "Listen {to this!} Behold, the sower went out to sow; |
4:4 | [NASB] as he was sowing, some {seed} fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up. |
4:5 | [NASB] "Other {seed} fell on the rocky {ground} where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. |
4:6 | [NASB] "And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. |
4:7 | [NASB] "Other {seed} fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. |
4:8 | [NASB] "Other {seeds} fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." |
4:9 | [NASB] And He was saying, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." |
用比喻的目的 |
4:10 | [NASB] As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, {began} asking Him {about} the parables. |
4:11 | [NASB] And He was saying to them, "To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, |
4:12 | [NASB] so that WHILE SEEING, THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND WHILE HEARING, THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN." |
解釋撒種的比喻 |
4:13 | [NASB] And He *said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables? |
4:14 | [NASB] "The sower sows the word. |
4:15 | [NASB] "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. |
4:16 | [NASB] "In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky {places,} who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; |
4:17 | [NASB] and they have no {firm} root in themselves, but are {only} temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. |
4:18 | [NASB] "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, |
4:19 | [NASB] but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. |
4:20 | [NASB] "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." |
點燈與量度 |
4:21 | [NASB] And He was saying to them, "A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not {brought} to be put on the lampstand? |
4:22 | [NASB] "For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has {anything} been secret, but that it would come to light. |
4:23 | [NASB] "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." |
4:24 | [NASB] And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides. |
4:25 | [NASB] "For whoever has, to him {more} shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him." |
種子發芽生長的比喻 |
4:26 | [NASB] And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; |
4:27 | [NASB] and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know. |
4:28 | [NASB] "The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head. |
4:29 | [NASB] "But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." |
芥菜種的比喻 |
4:30 | [NASB] And He said, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? |
4:31 | [NASB] "{It is} like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil, |
4:32 | [NASB] yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE." |
4:33 | [NASB] With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it; |
4:34 | [NASB] and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples. |
平靜風和海 |
4:35 | [NASB] On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, "Let us go over to the other side." |
4:36 | [NASB] Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him. |
4:37 | [NASB] And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up. |
4:38 | [NASB] Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" |
4:39 | [NASB] And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm. |
4:40 | [NASB] And He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?" |
4:41 | [NASB] They became very much afraid and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?" |