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And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;
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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.
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The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
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But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come.
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And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth?
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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,
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yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.
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And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;
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and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.
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And on that day, when even was come, he saith unto them, Let us go over unto the other side.
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And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, even as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.