The Grass Doctor

마가복음4장

Summary: 마가복음4장4 1 9 And again He began to teach by the seaside And a great multitude was gathered to Him so that He entered into a boat in the sea and sat down and all the multitude were by the sea on the land And He taught them many things in parables and in His teaching He said to them Listen Behold the sower went out to sow And it happened as he sowed that some fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up And other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil and it sprang up at once since it had no depth of soil And when the sun was risen it was scorched and since it had no root it withered away And other fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it and it yielded no crop And others fell into good soil and yielded fruit growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold And He said He who ears to hear let him hear 예수께서 다시 바닷가에서 가르치시니 큰 무리가 모여 들거늘 예수께서 배에 올라 바다에 떠 앉으시고 온 무리는 바다 곁 육지에 있더라이에 예수께서 여러 가지를 비유로 가르치시니 그 가르치시는 중에 저희에게 이르시되들으라 씨를 뿌리는 자가 뿌리러 나가서뿌릴새 더러는 길 가에 떨어지매 새들이 와서 먹어 버렸고더러는 흙이 얇은 돌밭에 떨어지매 흙이 깊지 아니하므로 곧 싹이 나오나해가 돋은 후에 타져서 뿌리가 없으므로 말랐고더러는 가시떨기에 떨어지매 가시가 자라 기운을 막으므로 결실치 못하였고더러는 좋은 땅에 떨어지매 자라 무성하여 결실하였으니 삼십 배와 육십 배와 백 배가 되었느니라 하시고또 이르시되 들을 귀 있는 자는 들으라 하시니라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 13 1 23 and Luke 8 1 15 DEFINITIONSBoat In Greek ploion meaning a small boat this word is used in the Gospels for fishing boats on Galilee The sower In Palestine there were two ways of sowing seeds that were practiced One was by scattering them while walking up and down the whole field In this method the sower may keep his supply of seed in a pocket made by pulling up his outer garment through his girdle to a sufficient extent for it to sag down outside his girdle in the form of a loose pouch He may on the other hand carry it in a jar or basket as the sowers are pictured as doing on the Egyptian monuments The other way the more lazy method involves putting a sack of seed on a donkey s back to tear or cut a hole in the corner of the sack and walking the donkey up and down the field while the seed ran out In the second method some seeds could dribble out of the sack while the animal was crossing the pathway and before it reached the field at all Jesus uses elements familiar to His audience in His parables elements that are part of everyday life He may have likely pointed to one of the fields nearby the fertile soil in the lakeshore is perfectly suited for planting grain where a sower was doing his daily job and took him as an example Look at that sower in that field sowing grain The Sea of Galilee from Arbel The path Fields in Palestine were long narrow strips of land with a pathway in the middle It was used as a common path and thus was beaten as hard as a pavement by the feet of passers by If seed fell there some seeds were bound to end up there in whatever way it was sown there was no more chance that they would penetrate the earth and take any root leaving them free for birds such as crows or ravens to chow down as birdseed Rocky ground What is meant here is a thin layer of soil on top of an underlying shelf of limestone which is common in the Holy Land On such a type of ground seeds would certainly germinate quickly since this type of ground heated up quickly with the heat of the sun however when the plant sends its roots down for moisture and nourishment it would only meet a dead end as the soil might only extend for a few inches before the limestone shelf is reached and thus die quickly starved to death and unable to withstand the sunlight Thorny ground While the sower is sowing the ground looks clean enough It is easy to make a garden look clean by simply turning it over but within the ground would still lie the roots of the couch grass and other perennial pests the thorns ready to spring to life again Every good gardener knows that weeds grow with a speed and strength that only few seeds could equal The result is that good seeds and the dormant weeds would grow together but the weeds would prove out to be strong in that they will choke the life out of the seedlings 10 20 And when He was alone those who were around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables And He said to them To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God but to those who are outside all things are done in parables so that Seeing they may see and not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand lest they should turn again and be forgiven And He said to them Do you not understand this parable And how will you understand all the parables The sower sows the word And these are the ones who are beside the path where the word is sown and when they hear immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them And in the same way these are the ones that are sown upon the rocky ground who when they hear the word immediately receive it with joy And they have no root in themselves but endure for a while then when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word immediately they fall away And others are those who are sown among the thorns they are those who have heard the word but the worries of the age and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful And those who were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty sixty and a hundredfold 예수께서 홀로 계실 때에 함께한 사람들이 열두 제자로 더불어 그 비유들를 묻자오니이르시되 하나님 나라의 비밀을 너희에게는 주었으나 외인에게는 모든 것을 비유로 하나니이는 저희로 보기는 보아도 알지 못하며 듣기는 들어도 깨닫지 못하게 하여 돌이켜 죄 사함을 얻지 못하게 하려 함이니라 하시고또 가라사대 너희가 이 비유를 알지 못할진대 어떻게 모든 비유를 알겠느뇨뿌리는 자는 말씀을 뿌리는 것이라말씀이 길 가에 뿌리웠다는 것은 이들이니 곧 말씀을 들었을 때에 사단이 즉시 와서 저희에게 뿌리운 말씀을 빼앗는 것이요또 이와 같이 돌밭에 뿌리웠다는 것은 이들이니 곧 말씀을 들을 때에 즉시 기쁨으로 받으나그 속에 뿌리가 없어 잠간 견디다가 말씀을 인하여 환난이나 핍박이 일어나는 때에는 곧 넘어지는 자요또 어떤 이는 가시떨기에 뿌리우는 자니 이들은 말씀을 듣되세상의 염려와 재리의 유혹과 기타 욕심이 들어와 말씀을 막아 결실치 못하게 되는 자요좋은 땅에 뿌리웠다는 것은 곧 말씀을 듣고 받아 삼십 배와 육십 배와 백 배의 결실을 하는 자니라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 23 10 23 Luke 8 9 15 An Apocryphal parallel to the parable would be from the Gospel of Thomas 9 21 23 And He said to them Surely a lamp is brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed Is it not brought to be set on a lampstand For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest nor is anything secret except to come to light If anyone has ears to hear let him hear 또 저희에게 이르시되 사람이 등불을 가져오는 것은 말 아래나 평상 아래나 두려 함이냐 등경 위에 두려 함이 아니냐드러내려 하지 않고는 숨긴 것이 없고 나타내려 하지 않고는 감추인 것이 없느니라들을 귀 있는 자는 들으라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 5 15 Matt 10 26 Luke 8 16 17 11 33 12 2 24 25 And He said to them Pay attention to what you hear with the measure you measure it will be measured to you and still more will be given to you 또 가라사대 너희가 무엇을 듣는가 스스로 삼가라 너희의 헤아리는 그 헤아림으로 너희가 헤아림을 받을 것이요 또 더 받으리니있는 자는 받을 것이요 없는 자는 그 있는 것까지 빼앗기리라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 7 2 13 12 Luke 6 38 26 29 And He said The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed upon the ground and should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should sprout and grow he knows not how The earth bears fruit by itself first the blade then the ear then the full grain in the ear But when the fruit is produced at onc　e he puts forth the sickle because the harvest has come 또 가라사대 하나님의 나라는 사람이 씨를 땅에 뿌림과 같으니저가 밤낮 자고 깨고 하는 중에 씨가 나서 자라되 그 어떻게 된 것을 알지 못하느니라땅이 스스로 열매를 맺되 처음에는 싹이요 다음에는 이삭이요 그 다음에는 이삭에 충실한 곡식이라열매가 익으면 곧 낫을 대나니 이는 추수 때가 이르렀음이니라When the fruit is produced at onc　e he puts forth the sickle because the harvest has come DEFINITIONSThe parable The parable is unique to the Gospel of Mark yet the final part the coming of the harvest has a parallel in the Gospel of Thomas 21d Harvest For the Hebrews as for those in any agricultural district today the harvest was a very important season Genesis 8 22 45 6 to the point that events were reckoned from harvests Genesis 30 14 Joshua 3 15 Judges 15 1 Ruth 1 22 2 23 1 Samuel 6 13 2 Samuel 21 9 23 13 There were three harvest seasons in Palestine which coincided with three major Jewish festivals 1 Pesach Passover in April at the time of the barley harvest cf Ruth 1 22 2 Shavuot Pentecost 7 weeks after Passover at the wheat harvest Exodus 34 22 and 3 Sukkot the feast of Booths at the end of the Jewish year around October during the fruit harvest The seasons have not changed since that time Between the reaping of the barley in April and the wheat in June most of the other cereals are reaped The grapes begin to ripen in August but the gathering in for making wine and molasses and the storing of the dried figs and raisins is at the end of September Between the barley harvest in April and the wheat harvest onl　y a few showers fall which are welcomed because they increase the yield of wheat cf Amos 4 7 while from the wheat harvest until the fruit harvest no rain falls 2 Samuel 21 10 Jeremiah 5 24 compare Proverbs 26 1 30 34 And He said With what can we compare the kingdom of God Or by what parable shall we use for it Like a mustard seed which when it is sown upon the soil is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth And when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the herbs and puts forth large branches so that the birds of the sky can dwell under its shade And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it And without a parable He did not speak to them but when they were alone He explained everything to His disciples 또 가라사대 우리가 하나님의 나라를 어떻게 비하며 또 무슨 비유로 나타낼꼬겨자씨 한 알과 같으니 땅에 심길 때에는 땅 위의 모든 씨보다 작은 것이로되심긴 후에는 자라서 모든 나물보다 커지며 큰 가지를 내니 공중의 새들이 그 그늘에 깃들일 만큼 되느니라예수께서 이러한 많은 비유로 저희가 알아 들을 수 있는 대로 말씀을 가르치시되비유가 아니면 말씀하지 아니하시고 다만 혼자 계실 때에 그 제자들에게 모든 것을 해석하시더라A mustard seed when it is sown upon the soil is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth PARALLELS IN THE BIBLE Matthew 13 31 32 마가복음4장4 1 9 And again He began to teach by the seaside And a great multitude was gathered to Him so that He entered into a boat in the sea and sat down and all the multitude were by the sea on the land And He taught them many things in parables and in His teaching He said to them Listen Behold the sower went out to sow And it happened as he sowed that some fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up And other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil and it sprang up at once since it had no depth of soil And when the sun was risen it was scorched and since it had no root it withered away And other fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked it and it yielded no crop And others fell into good soil and yielded fruit growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold And He said He who ears to hear let him hear 예수께서 다시 바닷가에서 가르치시니 큰 무리가 모여 들거늘 예수께서 배에 올라 바다에 떠 앉으시고 온 무리는 바다 곁 육지에 있더라이에 예수께서 여러 가지를 비유로 가르치시니 그 가르치시는 중에 저희에게 이르시되들으라 씨를 뿌리는 자가 뿌리러 나가서뿌릴새 더러는 길 가에 떨어지매 새들이 와서 먹어 버렸고더러는 흙이 얇은 돌밭에 떨어지매 흙이 깊지 아니하므로 곧 싹이 나오나해가 돋은 후에 타져서 뿌리가 없으므로 말랐고더러는 가시떨기에 떨어지매 가시가 자라 기운을 막으므로 결실치 못하였고더러는 좋은 땅에 떨어지매 자라 무성하여 결실하였으니 삼십 배와 육십 배와 백 배가 되었느니라 하시고또 이르시되 들을 귀 있는 자는 들으라 하시니라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 13 1 23 and Luke 8 1 15 DEFINITIONSBoat In Greek ploion meaning a small boat this word is used in the Gospels for fishing boats on Galilee The sower In Palestine there were two ways of sowing seeds that were practiced One was by scattering them while walking up and down the whole field In this method the sower may keep his supply of seed in a pocket made by pulling up his outer garment through his girdle to a sufficient extent for it to sag down outside his girdle in the form of a loose pouch He may on the other hand carry it in a jar or basket as the sowers are pictured as doing on the Egyptian monuments The other way the more lazy method involves putting a sack of seed on a donkey s back to tear or cut a hole in the corner of the sack and walking the donkey up and down the field while the seed ran out In the second method some seeds could dribble out of the sack while the animal was crossing the pathway and before it reached the field at all Jesus uses elements familiar to His audience in His parables elements that are part of everyday life He may have likely pointed to one of the fields nearby the fertile soil in the lakeshore is perfectly suited for planting grain where a sower was doing his daily job and took him as an example Look at that sower in that field sowing grain The Sea of Galilee from Arbel The path Fields in Palestine were long narrow strips of land with a pathway in the middle It was used as a common path and thus was beaten as hard as a pavement by the feet of passers by If seed fell there some seeds were bound to end up there in whatever way it was sown there was no more chance that they would penetrate the earth and take any root leaving them free for birds such as crows or ravens to chow down as birdseed Rocky ground What is meant here is a thin layer of soil on top of an underlying shelf of limestone which is common in the Holy Land On such a type of ground seeds would certainly germinate quickly since this type of ground heated up quickly with the heat of the sun however when the plant sends its roots down for moisture and nourishment it would only meet a dead end as the soil might only extend for a few inches before the limestone shelf is reached and thus die quickly starved to death and unable to withstand the sunlight Thorny ground While the sower is sowing the ground looks clean enough It is easy to make a garden look clean by simply turning it over but within the ground would still lie the roots of the couch grass and other perennial pests the thorns ready to spring to life again Every good gardener knows that weeds grow with a speed and strength that only few seeds could equal The result is that good seeds and the dormant weeds would grow together but the weeds would prove out to be strong in that they will choke the life out of the seedlings 10 20 And when He was alone those who were around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables And He said to them To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God but to those who are outside all things are done in parables so that Seeing they may see and not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand lest they should turn again and be forgiven And He said to them Do you not understand this parable And how will you understand all the parables The sower sows the word And these are the ones who are beside the path where the word is sown and when they hear immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them And in the same way these are the ones that are sown upon the rocky ground who when they hear the word immediately receive it with joy And they have no root in themselves but endure for a while then when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word immediately they fall away And others are those who are sown among the thorns they are those who have heard the word but the worries of the age and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful And those who were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty sixty and a hundredfold 예수께서 홀로 계실 때에 함께한 사람들이 열두 제자로 더불어 그 비유들를 묻자오니이르시되 하나님 나라의 비밀을 너희에게는 주었으나 외인에게는 모든 것을 비유로 하나니이는 저희로 보기는 보아도 알지 못하며 듣기는 들어도 깨닫지 못하게 하여 돌이켜 죄 사함을 얻지 못하게 하려 함이니라 하시고또 가라사대 너희가 이 비유를 알지 못할진대 어떻게 모든 비유를 알겠느뇨뿌리는 자는 말씀을 뿌리는 것이라말씀이 길 가에 뿌리웠다는 것은 이들이니 곧 말씀을 들었을 때에 사단이 즉시 와서 저희에게 뿌리운 말씀을 빼앗는 것이요또 이와 같이 돌밭에 뿌리웠다는 것은 이들이니 곧 말씀을 들을 때에 즉시 기쁨으로 받으나그 속에 뿌리가 없어 잠간 견디다가 말씀을 인하여 환난이나 핍박이 일어나는 때에는 곧 넘어지는 자요또 어떤 이는 가시떨기에 뿌리우는 자니 이들은 말씀을 듣되세상의 염려와 재리의 유혹과 기타 욕심이 들어와 말씀을 막아 결실치 못하게 되는 자요좋은 땅에 뿌리웠다는 것은 곧 말씀을 듣고 받아 삼십 배와 육십 배와 백 배의 결실을 하는 자니라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 23 10 23 Luke 8 9 15 An Apocryphal parallel to the parable would be from the Gospel of Thomas 9 21 23 And He said to them Surely a lamp is brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed Is it not brought to be set on a lampstand For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest nor is anything secret except to come to light If anyone has ears to hear let him hear 또 저희에게 이르시되 사람이 등불을 가져오는 것은 말 아래나 평상 아래나 두려 함이냐 등경 위에 두려 함이 아니냐드러내려 하지 않고는 숨긴 것이 없고 나타내려 하지 않고는 감추인 것이 없느니라들을 귀 있는 자는 들으라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 5 15 Matt 10 26 Luke 8 16 17 11 33 12 2 24 25 And He said to them Pay attention to what you hear with the measure you measure it will be measured to you and still more will be given to you 또 가라사대 너희가 무엇을 듣는가 스스로 삼가라 너희의 헤아리는 그 헤아림으로 너희가 헤아림을 받을 것이요 또 더 받으리니있는 자는 받을 것이요 없는 자는 그 있는 것까지 빼앗기리라PARALLELS IN OTHER GOSPELS Matthew 7 2 13 12 Luke 6 38 26 29 And He said The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed upon the ground and should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should sprout and grow he knows not how The earth bears fruit by itself first the blade then the ear then the full grain in the ear But when the fruit is produced at onc　e he puts forth the sickle because the harvest has come 또 가라사대 하나님의 나라는 사람이 씨를 땅에 뿌림과 같으니저가 밤낮 자고 깨고 하는 중에 씨가 나서 자라되 그 어떻게 된 것을 알지 못하느니라땅이 스스로 열매를 맺되 처음에는 싹이요 다음에는 이삭이요 그 다음에는 이삭에 충실한 곡식이라열매가 익으면 곧 낫을 대나니 이는 추수 때가 이르렀음이니라When the fruit is produced at onc　e he puts forth the sickle because the harvest has come DEFINITIONSThe parable The parable is unique to the Gospel of Mark yet the final part the coming of the harvest has a parallel in the Gospel of Thomas 21d Harvest For the Hebrews as for those in any agricultural district today the harvest was a very important season Genesis 8 22 45 6 to the point that events were reckoned from harvests Genesis 30 14 Joshua 3 15 Judges 15 1 Ruth 1 22 2 23 1 Samuel 6 13 2 Samuel 21 9 23 13 There were three harvest seasons in Palestine which coincided with three major Jewish festivals 1 Pesach Passover in April at the time of the barley harvest cf Ruth 1 22 2 Shavuot Pentecost 7 weeks after Passover at the wheat harvest Exodus 34 22 and 3 Sukkot the feast of Booths at the end of the Jewish year around October during the fruit harvest The seasons have not changed since that time Between the reaping of the barley in April and the wheat in June most of the other cereals are reaped The grapes begin to ripen in August but the gathering in for making wine and molasses and the storing of the dried figs and raisins is at the end of September Between the barley harvest in April and the wheat harvest onl　y a few showers fall which are welcomed because they increase the yield of wheat cf Amos 4 7 while from the wheat harvest until the fruit harvest no rain falls 2 Samuel 21 10 Jeremiah 5 24 compare Proverbs 26 1 30 34 And He said With what can we compare the kingdom of God Or by what parable shall we use for it Like a mustard seed which when it is sown upon the soil is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth And when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the herbs and puts forth large branches so that the birds of the sky can dwell under its shade And with many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it And without a parable He did not speak to them but when they were alone He explained everything to His disciples 또 가라사대 우리가 하나님의 나라를 어떻게 비하며 또 무슨 비유로 나타낼꼬겨자씨 한 알과 같으니 땅에 심길 때에는 땅 위의 모든 씨보다 작은 것이로되심긴 후에는 자라서 모든 나물보다 커지며 큰 가지를 내니 공중의 새들이 그 그늘에 깃들일 만큼 되느니라예수께서 이러한 많은 비유로 저희가 알아 들을 수 있는 대로 말씀을 가르치시되비유가 아니면 말씀하지 아니하시고 다만 혼자 계실 때에 그 제자들에게 모든 것을 해석하시더라A mustard seed when it is sown upon the soil is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth PARALLELS IN THE BIBLE Matthew 13 31 32

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