Mark 4:28 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁸ The soil yields its crop, first the green sprout, then the ears of grain, and then the kernels in the ears.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ The earth produces [acting] by itself–first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Common English Bible

²⁸ The earth produces crops all by itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full head of grain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ For the earth bears fruit readily: first the plant, then the ear, next the full grain in the ear.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.

Mark 4:28 Cross References

Matthew 13:26

But when the [green] shoots sprouted up and produced grain, weeds appeared also.

Mark 4:27

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.

Mark 4:29

But when the grain ripens the farmer wields his sickle because harvest time has come.”

Philippians 1:6

I am confident of this very thing, that God, who began something good among you, will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ’s [return].

Colossians 1:10

[We pray for you] to live a life deserving of the Lord, pleasing to Him in every way, producing fruit in every good deed and growing in the knowledge of God.