Mark 4:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁷ and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ 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)

²⁷ and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

Common English Bible

²⁷ then sleeps and wakes night and day. The seed sprouts and grows, but the farmer doesn’t know how.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Mark 4:26

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;

Mark 4:28

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

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We are bound to give thanks to God alway for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.