Mark 4:29

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

Matthew 13:30

Let both of them grow together until it is time for the harvest; then at that time, I will tell the harvesters, “Gather up the weeds first, and bind them up into bundles to burn. But gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

Mark 4:28

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

Revelation 14:18

Then another angel [i.e., the sixth] came out of the Altar. He had authority over [its] fire and he called out in a loud voice to the One who had the sharp sickle [i.e., the fifth angel] saying, “Use your sharp sickle to gather the clusters from the vines of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”