By a parable (δια παραβολης). Mr 4:2 says "in parables" as does Mt 13:3. This is the beginning of the first great group of parable…

And when much people were gathered ...—The narrative is less precise than that in St. Matthew. It is possible that the parable may…

Or, as Mark records it, because it had no depth of earth. There was just a thin layer of soil, enough for the seed's germination and early…

Theophylact of Ohrid: That which David had foretold in the person of Christ, I will open my mouth in parables, the…

Teaching by using parables was common among the rabbis of Jesus’ day (see comment on Mk 4:1–34). The sequence in vv.4–15 is (1) the parable of the …

And when much people were gathered together
To Jesus, as he was by the sea side, the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias: