Mark 4:27
25 For whoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
26 Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
28 All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.
29 And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
- KJV
- And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
- WEB
- and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
- ASV
- and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.
- DARBY
- and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.
- BLB
- and may sleep and rise night and day, and the seed may sprout and grow—he does not know how.
- ÅB
- og sover og står opp, natt og dag, og sæden spirer fram og blir høy, uten at han selv vet av det.
- OTB
- Han sover og står opp natt og dag, og kornet spirer og vokser, selv om han ikke vet hvordan.
- B1930
- og sover og står op, natt og dag, og sæden spirer frem og blir høi, uten at han selv vet av det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 11:5
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 8:17
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:37–38
And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
Read in contextJohn 3:7–8
Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’
Read in context2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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