Mark 4:28

A Conservative Version

For the earth bears fruit spontaneously, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Cross References

Hosea 6:3

And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

Colossians 1:10

For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,

Philippians 1:6

Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Matthew 13:26

And when the blade sprouted and produced fruit, then the tares also appeared.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so lord LORD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven:

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

Psalm 1:3

And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.

Genesis 2:9

And out of the ground LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, also the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Mark 4:27

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and lengthen, he knows not how.

Mark 4:29

But when the fruit yields, straightaway he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.