Mark 4: 26
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| 26 |
And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a
man should scatter seed upon the ground, |
| 27 |
and should sleep and rise night and day, and
the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. |
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The earth produces of itself, first the
blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. |
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But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts
in the sickle, because the harvest has come." |
| 30 |
And he said, "With what can we compare the
kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? |
| 31 |
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which,
when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth;
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| 32 |
yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes
the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of
the air can make nests in its shade." |
| 33 |
With many such parables he spoke the word to
them, as they were able to hear it; |
| 34 |
he did not speak to them without a parable,
but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. |
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