Mark 4:29

29 But when the crop permits, he sends [in] the sickle right away, because the harvest has come."

Mark 4:29 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 4:29

But when the fruit is brought forth
Unto perfection, and is fully ripe; signifying that when grace is brought to maturity, and faith is performed with power, and the good work begun is perfected; then, as the husbandman,

immediately he putteth the sickle;
and cuts it down, and gathers it in;

because the harvest is come;
at death or at the end of the world, which the harvest represents: when all the elect of God are called by grace, and grace in them is brought to its perfection, and they have brought forth all the fruit they were ordained to bear, they will then be all gathered in; either by Christ himself who comes into his garden, and gathers his lilies by death; or by the angels, the reapers, at the close of time, who will gather the elect from the four winds; or the ministers of the Gospel, who shall come again with joy, bringing their sheaves with them; being able to observe with pleasure a greater increase, and more fruit of their labours, than they knew of, or expected.

Mark 4:29 In-Context

27 And he sleeps and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows--{he does not know how}.

28 By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

29 But when the crop permits, he sends [in] the sickle right away, because the harvest has come."

30 And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or by what parable can we present it?

31 [It is] like a mustard seed that when sown on the ground, [although it] is the smallest of all the seeds that [are] on the ground,