Mark 4:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

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  • Mark 4:31-32 : 31 It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground– 32 when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 1:9-9 : 9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight 10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
  • 1 Thess 3:12-13 : 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you, 13 so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 2:4-5 : 4 The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens. 5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
  • Gen 4:11-12 : 11 So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.
  • Ps 92:13-14 : 13 Planted in the LORD’s house, they grow in the courts of our God. 14 They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
  • Eccl 3:1 : 1 A Time for All Events in Life For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the Sovereign LORD will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 So let us search for him! Let us seek to know the LORD! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”
  • Matt 13:26 : 26 When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared.

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  • Mark 4:29-32
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    29And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

    30The Parable of the Mustard Seed He also asked,“To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

    31It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground–

    32when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

    27He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

  • Mark 4:3-8
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    3“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

    4And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

    5Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

    6When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, it withered.

    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

    8But other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

  • Matt 13:26
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    26When the plants sprouted and produced grain, then the darnel also appeared.

  • 2 Tim 2:6
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    6The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14The sower sows the word.

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

    37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • John 4:35-37
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    35Don’t you say,‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

    36The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

  • Gen 1:11-12
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    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

    12The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

  • Mark 4:20
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    20But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”

  • Luke 8:15
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    15But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

  • Matt 13:8
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    8But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

  • Matt 13:23-24
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    23But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

    24The Parable of the Weeds He presented them with another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

  • Luke 8:11
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    11“Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

  • Luke 8:7-8
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    7Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.

    8But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” As he said this, he called out,“The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

  • Lev 26:4
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    4I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

  • Matt 13:18
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    18“So listen to the parable of the sower:

  • Prov 6:8
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    8yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.

  • Mark 13:28
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    28The Parable of the Fig Tree“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

  • Mark 4:18
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    18Others are the ones sown among thorns: They are those who hear the word,

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • Matt 13:30
    71%

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers,“First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

  • Jas 5:7
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    7Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

  • John 12:24
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    24I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

  • Luke 12:16
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    16He then told them a parable:“The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

  • Luke 6:44
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    44for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

  • Isa 28:24-25
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    24Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

    25Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

  • Ps 129:7
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    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Gal 6:8
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    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Job 14:8
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    8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

  • Luke 21:30
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    30When they sprout leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Matt 13:5
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    5Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.