Mark 4:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ πάλιν ἤρξατο διδάσκειν παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν: καὶ συνήχθη πρὸς αὐτὸν ὄχλος πολύς, ὥστε αὐτὸν ἐμβάντα εἰς τὸ πλοῖον, καθῆσθαι ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ· καὶ πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος πρὸς τὴν θάλασσαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἦν.

Transliteration

And palin he ērxato didaskein para the thalassan: and synēchthē pros him ochlos polys, hōste him embanta into the ploion, kathēsthai in the thalassē; and all the ochlos pros the thalassan epi the gēs ēn.

Grammar Details

• *palin*: adverb - again
• *ērxato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - began
• *didaskein*: present active infinitive - to teach
• *para*: preposition + accusative - beside/along
• *thalassan*: accusative, feminine, singular - sea
• *synēchthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - was gathered
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *ochlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - crowd
• *polys*: nominative, masculine, singular - great/many
• *hōste*: conjunction - so that
• *embanta*: aorist active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - having entered
• *ploion*: accusative, neuter, singular - boat
• *kathēsthai*: present middle infinitive - to sit
• *thalassē*: dative, feminine, singular - sea
• *epi*: preposition + genitive - on/upon
• *gēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - land/earth
• *ēn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was

Word Meanings

• *para*: alongside/beside/near
• *synēchthē*: was gathered/assembled/came together
• *ochlos*: crowd/multitude/throng
• *hōste*: so that/with the result that
• *kathēsthai*: to sit/be seated

Referenced Verses

• Mark 2:13 : 13 And he went out again by the seaside; and all the people came to him, and he gave them teaching.
• Luke 5:1-3 : 1 Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret; 2 And he saw two boats by the edge of the water, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.
• Luke 8:4-9 : 4 And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story: 5 A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven. 6 And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water. 7 And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth. 8 And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear. 9 And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story. 10 And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
• Mark 3:7 : 7 And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great number from Galilee came after him: and from Judaea,
• Matt 13:1-9 : 1 On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside. 2 And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea. 3 And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth; 4 And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food: 5 And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep: 6 And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead. 7 And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth: 8 And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much. 9 He who has ears, let him give ear. 10 And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories? 11 And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them. 14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.