మార్కు సువార్త 4
1 ఆయన సముద్రతీరమున మరల బోధింప నారం భింపగా, బహు జనులాయనయొద్దకు కూడివచ్చి యున్నం దున ఆయన సముద్రములో ఒక దోనెయెక్కి కూర్చుం డెను. జనులందరు సముద్రతీరమున నేలమీద నుండిరి.
2 ఆయన ఉపమానరీతిగా చాల సంగతులు వారికి బోధిం చుచు తన బోధలో వారితో ఇట్లనెను
3 వినుడి; ఇదిగో విత్తువాడు విత్తుటకు బయలువెళ్లెను.
4 వాడు విత్తు చుండగా కొన్ని విత్తనములు త్రోవప్రక్కను పడెను. పక్షులువచ్చి వాటిని మింగివేసెను.
5 కొన్ని చాల మన్ను లేని రాతినేలను పడెను; అక్కడ మన్ను లోతుగా ఉండ నందున అవి వెంటనే మొలిచెను గాని
6 సూర్యుడు ఉద యింపగానే అవి మాడి, వేరులేనందున ఎండిపోయెను.
7 కొన్ని ముండ్లపొదలలో పడెను; ముండ్లపొదలు ఎదిగి వాటిని అణచివేసెను గనుక అవి ఫలింపలేదు.
8 కొన్ని మంచినేలను పడెను; అవి మొలిచి పెరిగి పైరై ముప్పదం తలుగాను అరువదంతలుగాను నూరంతలుగాను ఫలించెను.
9 వినుటకు చెవులుగలవాడు వినునుగాక అని చెప్పెను.
10 ఆయన ఒంటరిగా ఉన్నప్పుడు పండ్రెండుమంది శిష్యు లతో కూడ ఆయనచుట్టు ఉండినవారు ఆ ఉపమానమును గూర్చి ఆయన నడిగిరి.
11 అందుకాయనదేవుని రాజ్య మర్మము (తెలిసికొనుట) మీకు అనుగ్రహింపబడియున్నది గాని
12 వెలుపలనుండువారు ఒకవేళ దేవునివైపు తిరిగి పాప క్షమాపణ పొందుదురని, వారు చూచుటకైతే చూచియు కనుగొనకను, వినుటకైతే వినియు గ్రహింపకయు నుండుట కును అన్నియు ఉపమానరీతిగా వారికి బోధింపబడుచున్న వని వారితో చెప్పెను
13 మరియుఈ ఉపమానము మీకు తెలియలేదా? ఆలాగైతే ఉపమానములన్నియు మీకేలాగు తెలియుననెను.
14 విత్తువాడు వాక్యము విత్తు చున్నాడు.
15 త్రోవప్రక్క నుండువారెవరనగా, వాక్యము వారిలో విత్తబడును గాని వారు వినిన వెంటనే సాతాను వచ్చి వారిలో విత్తబడిన వాక్య మెత్తికొనిపోవును.
16 అటువలె రాతినేలను విత్తబడినవారెవరనగా, వాక్యము విని సంతోషముగా అంగీకరించువారు;
17 అయితే వారిలో వేరు లేనందున, కొంతకాలము వారు నిలుతురు గాని వాక్యము నిమిత్తము శ్రమయైనను హింసయైనను కలుగ గానే వారు అభ్యంతరపడుదురు.
18 ఇతరులు ముండ్లపొదలలో విత్తబడినవారు;
19 వీరు వాక్యము విందురు గాని ఐహిక విచారములును, ధనమోసమును మరి ఇతరమైన అపేక్ష లును లోపల చొచ్చి, వాక్యమును అణచివేయుటవలన అది నిష్ఫలమగును.
20 మంచి నేలను విత్తబడినవారెవ రనగా, వాక్యము విని, దానిని అంగీకరించి ముప్పదంతలు గాను అరువదంతలుగాను నూరంతలుగాను ఫలించువారని చెప్పెను.
21 మరియు ఆయన వారితో ఇట్లనెనుదీపము దీప స్తంభముమీద నుంచబడుటకే గాని కుంచము క్రిందనైనను మంచముక్రిందనైన నుంచబడుటకు తేబడదు గదా
22 రహస్య మేదైనను తేటపరచబడకపోదు; బయలుపరచ బడుటకే గాని యేదియు మరుగుచేయబడలేదు
23 వినుటకు చెవులెవనికైన నుండినయెడల వాడు వినునుగాకనెను.
24 మరియు ఆయనమీరేమి వినుచున్నారో జాగ్రత్తగా చూచుకొనుడి. మీరెట్టి కొలతతో కొలుతురో మీకును అట్టి కొలతతోనే కొలువబడును, మరి ఎక్కువగా మీ కియ్యబడును.
25 కలిగినవానికి ఇయ్యబడును, లేనివానికి కలిగినదియు వానియొద్దనుండి తీసివేయబడునని వారితో చెప్పెను.
26 మరియు ఆయనఒక మనుష్యుడు భూమిలో విత్త నము చల్లి,
27 రాత్రింబగళ్లు నిద్రపోవుచు, మేల్కొనుచు నుండగా, వానికి తెలియని రీతిగా ఆ విత్తనము మొలిచి పెరిగినట్లే దేవుని రాజ్యమున్నది.
28 భూమి మొదట మొల కను తరువాత వెన్నును అటుతరువాత వెన్నులో ముదురు గింజలను తనంతటతానే పుట్టించును.
29 పంట పండినప్పుడు కోతకాలము వచ్చినదని సేద్యగాడు వెంటనే కొడవలి పెట్టి కోయునని చెప్పెను.
30 మరియు ఆయన ఇట్లనెనుదేవుని రాజ్యమును ఎట్లు పోల్చెదము? ఏ ఉపమానముతో దానిని ఉపమించెదము?
31 అది ఆవగింజను పోలియున్నది. ఆవగింజ భూమిలో విత్తబడినప్పుడు భూమిమీదనున్న విత్తనములన్నిటికంటె చిన్నదే గాని
32 విత్తబడిన తరువాత అది మొలిచి యెదిగి కూర మొక్కలన్నిటికంటె పెద్దదైగొప్ప కొమ్మలు వేయును గనుక ఆకాశ పక్షులు దాని నీడను నివసింపగలవనెను.
33 వారికి వినుటకు శక్తి కలిగినకొలది యీలాటి అనేక మైన ఉపమానములను చెప్పి, ఆయన వారికి వాక్యము బోధించెను.
34 ఉపమానము లేక వారికి బోధింపలేదు గాని ఒంటరిగా ఉన్నప్పుడు తన శిష్యులకు అన్నిటిని విశదపరచెను.
35 ఆ దినమే సాయంకాలమైనప్పుడు ఆయన అద్దరికి పోవుదమని వారితో చెప్పగా,
36 వారు జనులను పంపివేసి, ఆయనను ఉన్నపాటున చిన్నదోనెలో తీసికొనిపోయిరి; ఆయనవెంబడి మరికొన్ని దోనెలు వచ్చెను.
37 అప్పుడు పెద్ద తుపాను రేగి ఆయన యున్న దోనెమీద అలలు కొట్టినందున దోనె నిండిపోయెను.
38 ఆయన దోనె అమర మున తలగడమీద (తల వాల్చుకొని) నిద్రించుచుండెను. వారాయనను లేపి--బోధకుడా, మేము నశించిపోవు చున్నాము; నీకు చింతలేదా? అని ఆయనతో అనిరి.
39 అందుకాయన లేచి గాలిని గద్దించినిశ్శబ్దమై ఊరకుండు మని సముద్ర ముతో చెప్పగా, గాలి అణగి మిక్కిలి నిమ్మళ మాయెను.
40 అప్పుడాయనమీరెందుకు భయపడు చున్నారు? మీరింకను నమి్మకలేక యున్నారా? అని వారితో చెప్పెను.
41 వారు మిక్కిలి భయపడిఈయన ఎవరో, గాలియు సముద్రమును ఈయనకు లోబడు చున్నవని యొకనితో ఒకడు చెప్పుకొనిరి.
1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.
2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.
11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
14 The sower soweth the word.
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.
37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.
38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26 Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27 And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.