1. Mark 4:1–34 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What are key terms in 4:1–34?

Mark 4:1–34 (ESV)

1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.

Throughout the discourse some key terms are repeated:

  • Sowing (Mark 4:3–4, Mark 4:4, Mark 4:15–20 Mark 4:31–32)

  • Word (Mark 4:14–20, Mark 4:33)

  • Seed (Mark 4:4–5, Mark 4:7–8, Mark 4:15–16, Mark 4:18, Mark 4:20, Mark 4:26–27, Mark 4:31)

  • Soil (Mark 4:1, Mark 4:5, Mark 4:8, Mark 4:20, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:28, Mark 4:31)

  • Kingdom of God (Mark 4:11, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:30)

  • Hear (Mark 4:3, Mark 4:9, Mark 4:12, Mark 4:15–16, Mark 4:18, Mark 4:20, Mark 4:23–24, Mark 4:33)