Mark 4:26-29

Parable of the Seed

26 And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like * a man who casts seed upon the soil;

27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows -how, he himself does not know.

28 "The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

29 "But when the crop permits, he immediately ¹puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

Cross References

• 1. Joel 3:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "sends forth"