1. Mark 4:3 (ESV)
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What is significant about the double summons to listen, both in Mark 4:3 and 9?

Mark 4:3 (ESV)

3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.

The fact that this summons is repeated insistently, proves that the crowd’s willingness was weak and their true hearing slight. The images of the sower, wedged between the summons to listen, make it clear that the summons is of vital importance.1

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