Mark 4:28

Good News Translation

The soil itself makes the plants grow and bear fruit; first the tender stalk appears, then the head, and finally the head full of grain.

Cross References

Genesis 2:9

He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.

Psalm 1:3

They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do.

Proverbs 4:18

The road the righteous travel is like the sunrise, getting brighter and brighter until daylight has come.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Everything that happens in this world happens at the time God chooses.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has set the right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future, but never gives us the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does.

Isaiah 61:11

As surely as seeds sprout and grow, The Sovereign Lord will save his people, And all the nations will praise him.

Hosea 6:3

Let us try to know the Lord. He will come to us as surely as the day dawns, as surely as the spring rains fall upon the earth.”

Matthew 13:26

When the plants grew and the heads of grain began to form, then the weeds showed up.

Mark 4:27

He sleeps at night, is up and about during the day, and all the while the seeds are sprouting and growing. Yet he does not know how it happens.

Mark 4:29

When the grain is ripe, the man starts cutting it with his sickle, because harvest time has come.

Philippians 1:6

And so I am sure that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the Day of Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:10

Then you will be able to live as the Lord wants and will always do what pleases him. Your lives will produce all kinds of good deeds, and you will grow in your knowledge of God.