Mark 4:27 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

then went to bed and got up the next day to find that the seed had sprouted and grown, yet he did not know how it happened.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And then continues sleeping and rising night and day while the seed sprouts and grows and increases–he knows not how.

American Standard Version (1901)

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

Common English Bible

then sleeps and wakes night and day. The seed sprouts and grows, but the farmer doesn’t know how.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he sleeps and he arises, night and day. And the seed germinates and grows, though he does not know it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.

Mark 4:27 Cross References

Mark 4:26

And Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is like a farmer who scattered seed on the ground,

Mark 4:28

The soil yields its crop, first the green sprout, then the ears of grain, and then the kernels in the ears.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to thank God for you always, brothers, since it is proper, because your faith is growing so much and the love that every one of you has for each other is increasing more and more.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the unearned favor and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May He be honored both now and forever. May it be so.