Mark 4:29

29 But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."

Mark 4:29 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 4:29

But when the fruit is brought forth
Unto perfection, and is fully ripe; signifying that when grace is brought to maturity, and faith is performed with power, and the good work begun is perfected; then, as the husbandman,

immediately he putteth the sickle;
and cuts it down, and gathers it in;

because the harvest is come;
at death or at the end of the world, which the harvest represents: when all the elect of God are called by grace, and grace in them is brought to its perfection, and they have brought forth all the fruit they were ordained to bear, they will then be all gathered in; either by Christ himself who comes into his garden, and gathers his lilies by death; or by the angels, the reapers, at the close of time, who will gather the elect from the four winds; or the ministers of the Gospel, who shall come again with joy, bringing their sheaves with them; being able to observe with pleasure a greater increase, and more fruit of their labours, than they knew of, or expected.

Mark 4:29 In-Context

27 he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

28 Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.

29 But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."

30 Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?

31 It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;