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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.
耶穌又在海邊教訓人。有許多人到他那裏聚集，他只得上船坐下。船在海裏，眾人都靠近海，站在岸上。
4:2
ወመሀሮሙወመሰለሎሙብዙኀወይቤሎሙእንዘይሜህሮሙ።
He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,
耶穌就用比喻教訓他們許多道理。在教訓之間，對他們說：
4:3
ስምዑወፈረዘይዘርዕይዝራዕ።
“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow.
「你們聽啊！有一個撒種的出去撒種。
4:4
ወእንዘይዘርዕቦዘወድቀውስተፍኖትወመጽኡአዕዋፍወበልዕዎ።
As he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.
撒的時候，有落在路旁的，飛鳥來吃盡了；
4:5
ወቦዘወድቀውስተኰኵሕኀበአልቦመሬትብዙኅወፍጡነበቈለእስመአልቦዕመቅለመሬቱ።
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
有落在土淺石頭地上的，土既不深，發苗最快，
4:6
ወሠሪቆፀሓይአውዐዮእስመኢኮነዕሙቀመሬቱወአልቦሥርውወየብሰ።
When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
日頭出來一曬，因為沒有根，就枯乾了；
4:7
ወቦዘወድቀውስተሦክወኀነቆሦክወኢፈረየ።
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Others 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.”
又有落在好土裏的，就發生長大，結實有三十倍的，有六十倍的，有一百倍的」；
4:9
ወይቤዘቦዕዝንሰሚዐለይስማዕ።
He said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”
又說：「有耳可聽的，就應當聽！」
4:10
ወሶበተባሕተወተስእልዎእሊኣሁምስለዐሠርቱወክልኤቱአርዳኢሁምሳሌሁ።
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
that ‘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.’”
叫他們 看是看見，卻不曉得； 聽是聽見，卻不明白； 恐怕他們回轉過來，就得赦免。」
4:13
ወይቤሎሙኢተአምሩኑዛተምሳሌእፎእንከተአምሩኵሎአምሳለ።
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
The 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.
那撒在路旁的，就是人聽了道，撒但立刻來，把撒在他心裏的道奪了去。
4:16
ወእሉካዕበእሙንቱዘውስተኰኵሕተዘርዑእለይሰምዑቃለወይትዌከፍዎሶቤሃበፍሥሓ።
These 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.
Those 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.”
yet 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.”
但種上以後，就長起來，比各樣的菜都大，又長出大枝來，甚至天上的飛鳥可以宿在它 的蔭下。」
4:33
ወበዘከመዝአምሳልተናገሮሙቃሎበአምጣነይክሉሰሚዐ።
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
耶穌用許多這樣的比喻，照他們所能聽的，對他們講道。
4:34
ወዘእንበለምሳሌሰኢተናገሮሙወበባሕቲቶሙይፌክርለአርዳኢሁኵሎ።
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
若不用比喻，就不對他們講；沒有人的時候，就把一切的道講給門徒聽。
4:35
ወይእተአሚረመስዮይቤሎሙለአርዳኢሁንዕዱማዕዶተ።
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”
當那天晚上，耶穌對門徒說：「我們渡到那邊去吧。」
4:36
ወኀደጎሙለሕዝብወነሥእዎበሐመርወቦካልኣትኒአሕማርምስሌሆሙ።
Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
門徒離開眾人，耶穌仍在船上，他們就把他一同帶去；也有別的船和他同行。
4:37
ወመጽአዐቢይነፋሰዐውሎወይሰወጥማይእሞገድውስተሐመርእስከመልአማይውስተሐመር።
A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.