Mark 4:28

Mark 4:28

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The Parable of the Growing Seed

26 And He said, ^a“The kingdom of God is as if a man should¹ scatter seed on the ground,

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 4:28 First the blade. There is a law of orderly development in natural growth, so also is it in reference to spiritual growth. Compare I John 2:12-14. Some growths are quicker than others, but in all there is "growth". And we have no right to look for the end at the beginning, the ripened Christian experience in the young convert, the full corn in the first appearance of the blade. Observe, too, that we can know that "there is growth" by its results, though we know not "how", and that each stage of the growth is more apparent than the preceding stage.

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