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For the eretz bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
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But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
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He said, "How will we liken the kingdom of God? Or by what parable will we compare it?
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It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the eretz, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the eretz,
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yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
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With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own talmidim he explained all things.
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On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side."
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Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
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There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
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He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"