Mark 4:27

World English Bible (2000)

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn't know how.

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  • Eccl 11:5 : 5 As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.
  • John 3:7-8 : 7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' 8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
  • 1 Cor 15:37-38 : 37 That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind. 38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • Eccl 8:17 : 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

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    26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

  • Mark 4:28-33
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    28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

    29But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

    30He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

    31It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

    32yet 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."

    33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

  • Eccl 11:4-6
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    4He who observes the wind won't sow; and he who regards the clouds won't reap.

    5As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

    6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

  • Mark 4:13-14
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    13He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

    14The farmer sows the word.

  • Matt 13:22-27
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    22What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

    23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."

    24He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

    25but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

    26But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.

    27The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

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    3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

    4and it happened, as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

    5Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

    6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

    7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

    8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

  • 1 Cor 15:36-37
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    36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

    37That which you sow, you don't sow the body that will be, but a bare grain, maybe of wheat, or of some other kind.

  • Matt 13:31-32
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    31He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

    32which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."

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    11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

  • Luke 13:19-20
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    19It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."

    20Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?

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    37He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

  • Matt 13:3-5
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    4As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

    5Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

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    37For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

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    24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

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    7Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

    8Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

    9Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

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    7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

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    11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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    18"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

    19When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

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    29"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.

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    7Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

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    8I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

  • Matt 25:13
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    13Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.