Getting to Know Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
Study Twenty-One: Mark
4:13-20
13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?
How then will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15
And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear,
Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And
these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word,
immediately receive it with joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but
endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of
the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones sown among
thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world and the
deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the
word, and it proves unfruitful. 20 But those that were sown on the good soil
are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and
sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” (Mark 4)
1. What does verse
13 show about how the disciples were doing in relation to Jesus’ use of
parables?
2. What does Jesus
explain is the spiritual meaning of the seed that is sown?
3. What is the
spiritual meaning of the different places the seed falls?
4. What is the same
about all four of the responses to Jesus’ gospel?
5. What does this
parable tell us about what Jesus expected to happen in response to the
preaching of his gospel at that time, and throughout the ages?
6. In what ways has
Jesus’ gospel been sown into your life?
7. Which of the
four soils best describes your response to the proclamation of the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ?
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good
News Publishers.)
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