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Mark 4:1-9; 26-29 NIV
1
Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered
around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on
the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's
edge.
2
He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said:
3
"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.
4
As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the
birds came and ate it up.
5
Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It
sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
6
But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they
withered because they had no root.
7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants,
so that they did not bear grain.
8
Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a
crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times."
9 Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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."
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