Mark 4:28

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

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.