24 Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. aWith the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
25aFor whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 And He said, a“The kingdom of God is as if a man should1scatter seed on the ground,
27and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and agrow, he himself does not know how.
28For the earth ayields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.
29But when the grain ripens, immediately ahe puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
