Mark 4:27

night and day he sleeps and wakes while the seed is sprouting and growing tall, he knows not how.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

In Context

28Of its own accord the earth bears its crops; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

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Cross References

John 3:7Marvel not at my telling you, ‘You must all be born again from above.’

2 Thessalonians 1:3I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

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 →

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