Mark 4:32 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³² but whenever it is sown, it comes up and becomes greater than all the garden vegetables, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to nest under its shade."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² Yet after it is sown, it grows up and becomes the greatest of all garden herbs and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air are able to make nests and dwell in its shade.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.

Common English Bible

³² but when it’s planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all vegetable plants. It produces such large branches that the birds in the sky are able to nest in its shade.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² And when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all the plants, and it produces great branches, so much so that the birds of the air are able to live under its shadow."

Mark 4:32 Cross References

Matthew 13:32

which indeed is smaller [than] all the seeds; but whenever it is grown, it is greater [than] the garden vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

Mark 4:31

It is like a mustard seed, which whenever it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth;

Mark 4:33

And by many such parables He would speak the word to them, just as they were able to hear it.