Mark 4:27
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
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In Context
26He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,
28For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:17then 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 labours 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.
John 3:7Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must all be born anew.’
2 Thessalonians 1:3We 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,
Matthew Henry on Mark 4:22-35
The Gradual Advance of the Gospel. 21 And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? 22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. 23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. 24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. 25 For he that hath, to him shall be… Read the whole commentary →