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OET (OET-LV) And he_was_saying:
Thus is the kingdom of_ the _god:
as a_man may_throw the seed on the earth,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
οὕτως ἐστὶν ἡ Βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ: ὡς ἄνθρωπος βάλῃ τὸν σπόρον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
thus is the Kingdom ¬the ˱of˲_God as /a/_man /may/_cast the seed on the earth
To teach his audience, Jesus offers a story or illustration. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Listen to this story. Thus is the kingdom of God: As a man throws seed on the ground”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
οὕτως ἐστὶν ἡ Βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ: ὡς ἄνθρωπος
thus is the Kingdom ¬the ˱of˲_God as /a/_man
Jesus is saying that the kingdom of God is like a man who throws seed on the ground. The following verses will give further information about this comparison. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different form that introduces this kind of comparison. Alternate translation: “The kingdom of God is like a man who”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations
ἄνθρωπος
/a/_man
Here and in the following verses, Jesus tells a story about a specific man. It is not important for the story whether the person is a man or a woman. If you have a form that refers to any person without identifying a gender, you could use it here. Otherwise, you could identify the person as a man, as the UST does. Alternate translation: “a person”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
βάλῃ τὸν σπόρον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς
/may/_cast the seed on the earth
While there are many ways to sow or plant seeds, here Jesus is describing a practice in which a farmer picks up handfuls of seed and throws them so that they are scattered all over the top of the soil. If it would be helpful in your language, you could explain what the man is doing. Alternate translation: “sows the seed on the earth” or “scatters the seeds over the field”
Note 5 topic: grammar-collectivenouns
τὸν σπόρον
the seed
Here, the word seed is singular in form, but it refers to many seeds as a group. If it would be helpful in your language, you could say this plainly. Alternate translation: “the seeds”
4:1-34 In this section Mark collects a number of Jesus’ teaching parables.
OET (OET-LV) And he_was_saying:
Thus is the kingdom of_ the _god:
as a_man may_throw the seed on the earth,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.