Mr 4:1-34. Parable of the Sower—Reason for Teaching in Parables—Parables of the Seed Growing We Know Not How, and of the Mustard Seed. ( = Mt 13:1-23, 31, 32; Lu 8:4-18).
1. And he began again to teach by the seaside: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude—or, according to another well-supported reading, "a mighty" or "immense multitude."
so that he entered into a ship—rather, "the ship," meaning the one mentioned in Mr 3:9. (See on Mt 12:15).
and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land—crowded on the seashore to listen to Him. (See on Mt 13:1, 2.)