Mark 4:32

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all the plants, and it produces great branches, so much so that the birds of the air are able to live under its shadow."

Cross References

Psalm 104:12

Though they may have been but a small number, very few and foreigners there,

Psalm 91:1

A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is like a shining light: it advances and increases, even to the day of completion.

Song of Solomon 2:3

Bride to Chorus: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat beneath the shadow of the one whom I desired, and his fruit was sweet to my palate.

Isaiah 11:9

They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain. For the earth has been filled with the knowledge of the Lord, like the waters covering the sea.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man will be like someone hidden from the wind, who conceals himself from a storm, or like rivers of waters in a time of thirst, or like the shadow of a rock that juts out in a desert land.

Lamentations 4:20

RES. The spirit of our mouth, Christ the Lord, has been captured by our sins; to him, we said, "In your shadow, we will live among the Gentiles."

Ezekiel 17:23

On the sublime mountains of Israel, I will plant it. And it shall spring forth in buds and bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar. And all the birds will live under it, and every bird will make its nest under the shadow of its branches.

Matthew 13:32

It is, indeed, the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is greater than all the plants, and it becomes a tree, so much so that the birds of the air come and dwell in its branches."

Mark 4:31

It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it has been sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds which are in the earth.

Mark 4:33

And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as much as they were able to hear.