Mark 4:26-28

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

The Kingdom of God Is Like Seed That Grows From Within Itself To Maturity

²⁶And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like this: as-if a person would throw the seed upon the soil, ²⁷and would be sleeping and arising night and day, and the seed would be budding and growing-long— how, he does not^[a] know. ²⁸The soil bears-fruit by-itself ^[b]— first grass, then a head, then a full grain in the head.

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Footnotes

Mark 4:27 The seed has life in it, and grows without the assistance or understanding of the sower. The sower sows. God causes the growth in ways the sower does not understand. Then the person harvests the fruit.
Mark 4:28 Or, on-its-own.

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