Marcos 4

1 Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. 2 He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, 3 "Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow. 4 As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds*4:4 TR adds "of the air" came and devoured it. 5 Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. 6 When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. 7 Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8 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." 9 He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

10 When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 12 that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’"✝4:12 Isaiah 6:9-10

13 He said to them, "Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 16 These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. 18 Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, 19 and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20 Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

21 He said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket *4:21 literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 liters) or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? 22 For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light. 23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

24 He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and more will be given to you who hear. 25 For whoever has, to him more will be given; and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him."

26 He said, "God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. 28 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

30 He said, "How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, 32 yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let’s go over to the other side." 36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. 37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. 38 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?"

39 He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?"

41 They were greatly afraid and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

Te Kupu Whakarite mō te Kairui

1 Nā, ka tīmata anō ia te whakaako i te taha o te moana. He nui hoki te tangata i huihui ki a ia, nō ka eke ia ki runga ki te kaipuke, ka noho ki te moana; i uta te mano katoa i te taha o te moana. 2 Ā, he maha āna mea i whakaako ai ki a rātou, he mea whakarite, i mea hoki ki a rātou i a ia e ako ana:

3 "Whakarongo! Nā, i haere atu te kairui ki te rui. 4 Ā, i a ia e rui ana, ka ngahoro ētahi ki te taha o te ara, ā, ko te rerenga mai o ngā manu o te rangi, nā, kainga ake. 5 Ko ētahi i ngahoro ki te wāhi kāmaka, ki te wāhi kīhai i nui te oneone; ā, pīhi tonu ake, kāhore hoki i hōhonu te oneone. 6 Ā, nō te whitinga o te rā, ngaua iho; ā, nō te mea kāhore he pūtake, memenge noa iho. 7 Ko ētahi i ngahoro ki roto ki ngā tātarāmoa, ā, nō te tupunga ake o ngā tātarāmoa, kōwaowaotia ana ngā purapura, ā, kore ake he hua. 8 Ko ētahi i ngahoro ki te oneone pai, ā, whai hua ana; ka tupu, ka nui, ka ea ake, nō ētahi e toru tekau, nō ētahi e ono tekau, nō ētahi kotahi rau."

9 I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Ki te whai taringa tētahi hei whakarongo, kia rongo ia."

Te Take o ngā Kupu Whakarite

10 Nā, ka mahue ko ia anake, ka ui ki a ia ōna hoa me te tekau mā rua ki taua kupu whakarite. 11 Ka mea ia ki a rātou: "Kua hoatu ki a koutou te mātauranga ki te mea ngaro o te rangatiratanga o te Atua; ki te hunga ia o waho e rā rototia ana ngā mea katoa i te kupu whakarite, 12 mō,

‘Te titiro rawa atu rātou, nā, e kore e kite;

rongo rawa, nā, e kore e mātau;

kei tahuri, ā, ka murua ō rātou hara.’ "

Ka Whakamārama a Īhu i te Kupu Whakarite mō te Kairui

13 I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Kāhore rānei koutou e mātau ki tēnei kupu whakarite? Ā, me pēhea ka mātau ai koutou ki ngā kupu whakarite katoa? 14 Ko te kairui e rui ana i te kupu. 15 Ko ēnei te hunga i te taha o te ara, i te wāhi e ruia ana te kupu; i tō rātou rongonga, nā, haere tonu mai a Hātana, kapohia ake te kupu i ruia ki ō rātou ngākau. 16 Ko ēnei anō te hunga i ngā purapura i ngā wāhi kāmaka; ko te hunga, i tō rātou rongonga ai i te kupu, hohoro tonu te tango, hari tonu. 17 Nā, kāhore ō rātou pakiaka, ka whakapakari kau noa; heoi, i te pānga o te whakapāwera, o te whakatoi rānei mō te kupu, hē tonu iho. 18 Nā, ko ēnei te hunga i ngā purapura i roto i ngā tātarāmoa; ko ngā mea i rongo ki te kupu, 19 ā, i te putanga o te whakaaro ki tēnei ao, o te hangarau o ngā taonga, o ngā hiahia ki ērā atu mea, kōwaowaotia iho te kupu, ā, kore ake he hua. 20 Nā, ko ēnei te hunga i ngā purapura i te oneone pai: ko te hunga e rongo ana ki te kupu, ā, tango ana, ā, whai hua ana, o ētahi e toru tekau, o ētahi e ono tekau, o ētahi kotahi rau."

He Rama i raro i te Oko

21 I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Ko raro koia i te mēhua whakatū ai i te rama, ina mauria mai, ko raro rānei i te moenga? He teka ianei me whakatū ki runga ki te tūranga? 22 E kore hoki tētahi mea i huna e mahue te whakakite; kāhore hoki tētahi mea i huna, engari, kia puta ki te māramatanga. 23 Ki te mea he taringa o tētahi hei whakarongo, kia rongo ia."

24 I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Kia tūpato ki tā koutou e rongo ai; ko te mēhua hoki e mēhua ai koutou, hei mēhua anō tēnā ki a koutou; ā, ka tāpiritia anō he mea mā koutou, mā ngā kaiwhakarongo. 25 Ki te whai mea hoki tētahi, ka hoatu anō ki a ia; ki te kāhore he mea a tētahi, ka tangohia i a ia āna ake."

Te Kupu Whakarite mō te Purapura e Tipu ake ana

26 I mea anō ia, "I rite hoki te rangatiratanga o te rangi ki te tangata i makā e ia he purapura ki te oneone; 27 ā, ka moe, ka ara, i te pō, i te ao, me te tupu anō tērā te purapura, tē mātau ia nā te aha. 28 E hua ana hoki te whenua i tōna kaha ake anō; ko te rau ki mua, ko reira te puku, muri iho ko te wīti pakari i roto i te puku. 29 Otirā, ka rite ngā hua, hohoro tonu tāna tuku atu i tāna toronaihi, kua taea hoki te kotinga."

Te Kupu Whakarite mō te Pua Nanī

30 I mea anō ia, "Me whakarite e tātou te rangatiratanga o te Atua ki te aha? He aha oti te kupu whakarite hei whakaahua atu mā tātou? 31 E rite ana ki te pua nanī, i tōna whakatōkanga ki te whenua, ko te iti rawa ia o ngā purapura katoa i runga i te whenua. 32 Otirā, ka oti te whakatō, ka tupu, ka nui ake i ngā otaota katoa, ā, ka nunui ōna manga; nō ka noho ngā manu o te rangi i tōna taumarumarutanga iho."

33 Nā, he maha āna kupu whakarite pērā, i kōrerotia ai e ia te kupu ki a rātou, ko ā rātou i āhei ai te whakarongo. 34 Ā, heoi āna kupu ki a rātou he kupu whakarite anake; otiia, ka noho ko rātou anake, ka whakaaturia e ia ngā mea katoa ki āna ākonga.

Ka Whakamarinotia e Īhu tētahi Tūpuhi

35 Nā, i taua rā, i te ahiahi, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Tātou ka whakawhiti ki tāwāhi." 36 Nā, ka mahue iho te mano, ka mauria ia e rātou, i runga tonu anō ia i te kaipuke. I a ia anō ētahi atu kaipuke. 37 Nā, ko te putanga o tētahi hau, he tūpuhi, ā, eke ana ngā ngaru ki runga ki te kaipuke, ā, tomo noa. 38 Nā, ko ia i te kei i runga i te urunga e moe ana; ā, ka whakaara rātou i a ia, ka mea ki a ia, "E te Kaiwhakaako, kāhore ōu manawapā ki a tātou ka ngaro?"

39 Nā, ka ara ia, ā, rīria iho e ia te hau, ka mea ia ki te moana, "Kāti, whakamutua." Nā, māriri tonu iho te hau, takoto ana he marino nui.

40 Kātahi ia ka mea ki a rātou, "He aha tā koutou e mataku nei? He aha koutou tē whakapono ai?"

41 Nā, ka mataku whakaharahara rātou, ka mea tētahi ki tētahi, "Ko wai tēnei, inā ka rongo rawa te hau me te moana ki a ia?"