Mark 4:26-29

The Parable of the Seed that Grows by Itself

26 And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.

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."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "[in such a way] as he does not know"