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Parables: Growing Seed

A Mark-only parable about hidden kingdom growth.

Growing Seed 1 of 4 Gospel account(s) Appears in Mark.
Matthew

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Mark

Mark 4:26-29

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Mark uniquely records the seed growing while the farmer sleeps.

26 He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.

27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

28 All by itself the soil produces grain-- first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.

29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."

Luke

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John

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