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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Mark 4:1-20

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESMark 4:1. For a description of the surrounding scenery, which doubtless furnished many of the illustrations used in the following parables, see Stanley’s Sinai and Palestine, pp. 425–427; Thomson’s Land and the Book, p. 402; Tristram’s Land of Israel, p. 431.Mark 4:11. Unto you, who possess the hearing ear and inquiring heart, is given the mystery or inner secret of the kingdom of God; but unto them that are without, who listen only from curiosity or some even less... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Mark 4:3-4

Mark 4:3-4 Waste. The sower went out to sow, and, as he sowed, there was a great waste. Much precious seed fell, to his right hand and to his left, on ground unprepared to receive it. Ground hard as the nether millstone was one part of the surface on which the germ of food and life fell. It lay there for a few moments, more or less, but it sank not in, it found no receptive, no digestive, no assimilating power in the earth on which it lighted; it was caught away and devoured, and the act of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Mark 4:1-41

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the gospel according to Mark, chapter 4.Beginning in chapter 4, we have the beginning of the ministry of Christ in parables. There is often times a mistaken opinion as to the reason why Jesus went to parables. The purpose of a parable is really not to veil the truth, but to illustrate the truth. And many times when people become dull of hearing, where they will not receive just straight teaching, when you've lost the attention of your students, a method by... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Mark 4:1-41

Mark 4:12 . That seeing they may see, and not perceive. St. Luke gives the true sense of these words, which often occur. Acts 28:26-27. They mark, according to Dr. Lightfoot, the obduracy which fell on the jews, when they shut their eyes against the ministry and miracles of Jesus. On their wilfully doing this, God withdrew his grace. He quotes Procopius on Isaiah to the same effect. “The power of seeing was presented to them from the grace of him who was seen; hence, their not seeing, was... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Mark 4:3

Mark 4:3Hearken; behold, there went out a sower to sow.Parable of the sowerThis parable is both a solemn lesson and warning, and also a description of what is actually taking place in the world. There are calls to lead a holy life perpetually going on; there are either sudden rejections or gradual forgettings of those calls. Such calls may differ in degree, and strength, and strikingness of the impression, but they are all calls; a truth is distinctly embraced by the mind of the person at the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Mark 4:3

3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: Ver. 3. Hearken, behold ] Christ well knew the fickleness of men’s spirits, and how every small matter calls them off, when most earnestly set to hear. See Trapp on " Mat 13:3 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Mark 4:3

Hearken: Mark 4:9, Mark 4:23, Mark 7:14, Mark 7:16, Deuteronomy 4:1, Psalms 34:11, Psalms 45:10, Proverbs 7:24, Proverbs 8:32, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:12, Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 55:2, Acts 2:14, Hebrews 2:1-Leviticus :, James 2:5, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:29 there: Mark 4:14, Mark 4:26-Joel :, Ecclesiastes 11:6, Isaiah 28:23-Ezekiel :, Matthew 13:3, Matthew 13:24, Matthew 13:26, Luke 8:5-Ruth :, John 4:35-Zechariah :, 1 Corinthians 3:6-1 Samuel : read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Mark 4:3

Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:Hearken — This word he probably spoke with a loud voice, to stop the noise and hurry of the people. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Mark 4:3

3. Behold, there went out a sower to sow The Greek has the article the; the sower. The sower of the seed is the preacher, and the original sower is the Lord himself. Our Lord had, no doubt, during his preaching in Galilee, plentiful experience of the various classes of hearers he describes in this parable. read more