Mark 4:32

Bible in Basic English 1965

But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

Cross References

Psalm 104:12

The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

Psalm 91:1

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Proverbs 4:18

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

Song of Solomon 2:3

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Isaiah 11:9

There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

Lamentations 4:20

Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

Ezekiel 17:23

It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

Matthew 13:32

Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

Mark 4:31

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

Mark 4:33

And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it: