Mark 4:9

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

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

In Context

8But some of those seeds fell on really good ground, and those seeds grew properly and became seed food plants. When they were ready, they had really big mobs of new seeds on them.”

10Some time later, Jesus came away from that big mob of people. Then just his 12 special workers and a few other people sat around him. They said to him, “You tell us picture stories, but we can’t understand them. What are your stories all about?”

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Cross References

Matthew 11:15And Jesus said, “You’ve got ears, so you have to listen to me properly, and take notice of my words.”

Mark 4:23You’ve all got ears, so you have to listen to me properly, and take notice of my words.”

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

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