When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 4:6 in context
Mark 4:3–9
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“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
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As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
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Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
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When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
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Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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Others fell into the good ground and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
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He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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