Mark 4:29-31

Amplified Bible

²⁹But when the crop ripens, he immediately puts in the sickle [to reap], because [the time for] the harvest has come.”

Parable of the Mustard Seed

³⁰And He said, “How shall we ^[a]picture the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use to illustrate and explain it?^(A) ³¹It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, even though it is ^[b]smaller than all the [other] seeds that are [sown] on the soil,

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Footnotes

Mark 4:30 Lit compare.
Mark 4:31 In ancient Israel the mustard seed was the smallest known seed, and in rabbinic teaching the mustard seed was used as an example of something very small (in the Talmud).