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Mark 4:1-20
Key Verse 4:9 “Then Jesus said, ‘Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.’”
- What is a parable? Why did Jesus teach in parables? (3:23; 4:2,33) What does Jesus mean by “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear”?
- What is the secret of the kingdom of God? (11) How is the secret given to us? Why do many people fail to receive the secret? (12)
- What are the 4 different kinds of soil and what happened to the seed that fell in each soil? (3-8)
- What does seed represent? (14) What do the path, the rocky places and the thorny soil represent? What makes the seed unfruitful in each soil?
- What happens to the seed planted in the good soil? (20) What does it mean to “hear” and “accept” the word?
- What does this parable teach us about different responses to the Gospel message and how does it encourage us to sow the word of God?