Mark 4:28

English Standard Version 2016

The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Cross References

Hosea 6:3

Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Colossians 1:10

so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Philippians 1:6

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 13:26

So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Genesis 2:9

And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Mark 4:27

He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.

Mark 4:29

But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”