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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. See also: Mark 2:13Luke 5:1-3Luke 8:4-10He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching, See also: Mark 4:11Matthew 13:34-35Mark 3:23“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow. See also: John 4:35-38James 2:51 Corinthians 3:6-9As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it. See also: Matthew 13:19Mark 4:15Matthew 13:4Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil. See also: Luke 8:6Ezekiel 36:26Hosea 10:12When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. See also: Jonah 4:8James 1:11Jeremiah 17:5-8Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. See also: Jeremiah 4:31 John 2:15-16Luke 8:14Others 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.” See also: John 15:5Colossians 1:6Genesis 26:12He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.” See also: Matthew 11:15Mark 4:23-24Revelation 3:22When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. See also: Matthew 13:10-17Luke 8:9-15Matthew 13:36He 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, See also: Matthew 11:25Luke 8:101 John 5:20that ‘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.’” See also: Isaiah 6:9-10Isaiah 44:18Matthew 13:14-15He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables? See also: Revelation 3:191 Corinthians 3:1-2Matthew 13:51-52The farmer sows the word. See also: Acts 8:4Matthew 13:19Matthew 13:37The 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. See also: 1 Peter 5:8Matthew 13:192 Corinthians 2:11These 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. See also: Luke 8:13Mark 6:20Matthew 13:20-21They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble. See also: Matthew 11:61 Thessalonians 3:3-5John 15:2-7Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, See also: Luke 8:14Jeremiah 4:3Matthew 13:22and 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. See also: 1 John 2:15-171 Timothy 6:9-101 Timothy 6:17Those 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.” See also: Colossians 1:10Luke 8:15John 15:4-5He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand? See also: Matthew 5:15Luke 11:33Luke 8:16For there is nothing hidden except that it should be made known, neither was anything made secret but that it should come to light. See also: Luke 8:17Ecclesiastes 12:141 Corinthians 4:5If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.” See also: Matthew 11:15Mark 4:9Revelation 2:29He 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. See also: Hebrews 2:1Luke 8:18Matthew 7:2For 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.” See also: Matthew 13:12Luke 8:18Matthew 25:28-29He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, See also: Matthew 13:241 Corinthians 3:6-91 Peter 1:23-25and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. See also: Ecclesiastes 11:52 Thessalonians 1:3Ecclesiastes 8:17For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. See also: Philippians 1:9-11Hosea 6:3Mark 4:31-32But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” See also: Joel 3:13Isaiah 57:1-2Matthew 13:40-43He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? See also: Matthew 13:31-32Luke 13:18-21Lamentations 2:13It’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, See also: Acts 19:20Luke 13:18-19Genesis 22:17-18yet 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.” See also: Daniel 4:20-22Daniel 4:10-14Ezekiel 31:3-10With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. See also: Matthew 13:34-35John 16:121 Corinthians 3:1-2Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. See also: John 16:25Mark 4:10Luke 24:27On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.” See also: Matthew 8:18Luke 8:25Luke 8:22Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him. See also: Mark 3:9Mark 4:1Mark 5:2A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. See also: Matthew 8:23-24Job 1:19Luke 8:22-23He 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?” See also: 1 Peter 5:7Hebrews 4:15Isaiah 54:6-8He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm. See also: Psalms 107:29Psalms 89:9Psalms 65:7He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?” See also: Luke 8:25Matthew 8:26Matthew 14:31They were greatly afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” See also: Luke 8:251 Samuel 12:18-20Job 38:11
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Mark 4:1
Ver. 1. If we examine S. Matthew on this point, we shall discover that this discourse was made on the same day as the preceding discourse; for S.
Matthew informs us, that having finished this exhortation, he the same day went and taught by the sea. Ven. Bede.
↑ 1Mark 4:10
Ver. 10. When he was alone: in Greek Ote egeneto Katamonas; i.e. when he was retired and alone, either in the house, out of the city, or at a distance from the multitude. T.
↑ 10Mark 4:11
Ver. 11. Such as are out of the Church, though they both hear and read, they cannot understand. Ven. Bede, in C. iv, Mark.
↑ 11Mark 4:12
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 12. That seeing they may see, &c. In punishment of their wilfully shutting their eyes, (Matt. xiii. 15.) God justly withdrew those lights and graces which otherwise he would have given them, for their effectual conversion. Ch. —
These speeches here and elsewhere, we are not to understand as if he spoke in parables to this end that the hearers might not understand, lest they should be converted; but we must learn the true sense from the corresponding texts in Matt. xiii, and Acts xxviii, where our Saviour and S. Paul render it thus: with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut. lest, perhaps, they may see, and understand, and be converted, and I heal them.
Whereby it is evident, that the speaking in parables was not the cause, (for many besides the apostles heard and understood) but themselves, who would not hear and understand, and be converted: and thus they were the real cause of their own wilful and obstinate infidelity. And therefore also he spoke in parables, because they were not worthy to understand, as the others were to whom he expounded them. B.
↑ 12Mark 4:22
Ver. 22. All my parables, doctrines, and actions, which appear now to you so full of mystery, shall not always be so: in due time they shall all be publicly expounded by you, my apostles, and by your successors. Tirinus.
↑ 22Mark 4:23
Ver. 23. And let him learn that he is not to bury in unjust silence the instructions or the examples I give him; but must exercise them for the light and direction of others. V.
↑ 23Mark 4:24
Ver. 24. Pay attention then to what you hear this day, that you may retain it, and communicate it to others, your brethren; for as you measure to others, so shall it be meted unto you; yes, more shall be given to you, who receive the word of God, if you be attentive to preserve it yourselves, and to communicate it to your brethren. V.
↑ 24Mark 4:25
Ver. 25. They who do not profit by the knowledge of the word of God, shall in punishment of their neglect, lose the advantage which they may seem to have, since it will turn in the end to their greater condemnation: and moreover, by trusting to their own judgment, they interpret the word in a perverse sense, and thus also lose what they seem to have. Nic. de Lyra. — Let those who talk so much about Scripture, and interpret it according to their own private spirit or fancy, see lest this also attach to them. A.
↑ 25Mark 4:26
Ver. 26. So it is with him who announces the gospel of the kingdom of God, as with the sower. For whether he sleep or rise, the seed will grow up while he knoweth not; and the well prepared soil will, by the blessing of God, be productive: so the word of God shed abroad in the heart of man, will increase and fructify independently of all the preacher's solicitude, till he who has received it, being arrived at the measure of the age and fulness of Christ, shall be withdrawn by God from this world, and be called to himself. V.
↑ 26Mark 4:29
Ver. 29. When the fruit is brought forth: lit. when the fruit[1] hath produced. By the fruit is here meant the seed; i.e. when the seed by degrees hath produced the blade, then the ear, and lastly the corn, which is become ripe. Wi. — This is a secondary sense of the text, when the fruit hath come to maturity, and by no means a forced interpretation.
↑ 29Mark 4:33
Ver. 33. This seems to contradict what was said v. 12, that seeing they may not see, &c.; but we must observe, that parables have more explanations than one, some more easy, whilst others are more difficult to be understood. In parables, the multitude understood the more literal interpretation, whilst Christ explains the more abstruse and hidden sense to his apostles. Hence there is no contradiction in these texts. Nic. de Lyra.
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[1] V. 29. Cum produxerit fructus. In the Greek, fructus is in the nominative case; otan de parado o karpos, &c.
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↑ 33License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses