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He also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,
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and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
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The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
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But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
