Mark 4:29 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Mark 4:29

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27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and ^agrow, he himself does not know how.

28 For the earth ^ayields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.

29 But when the grain ripens, immediately ^ahe puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

30 Then He said, ^a“To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it?

31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;

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Mark 4:29

But when the fruit is brought forth—to maturity

immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come—This charmingly points to the transition from the earthly to the heavenly condition of the Christian and the Church.

Parable of the Mustard Seed (Mark 4:30-32).

For the exposition of this portion, see on Matthew 13:31-32.

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