Mark 4:32

Good News Translation

After a while it grows up and becomes the biggest of all plants. It puts out such large branches that the birds come and make their nests in its shade.”

Cross References

Psalm 104:12

In the trees near by, the birds make their nests and sing.

Psalm 91:1

Whoever goes to the Lord for safety, whoever remains under the protection of the Almighty,

Proverbs 4:18

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

Song of Solomon 2:3

Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my dearest compared to other men. I love to sit in its shadow, and its fruit is sweet to my taste.

Isaiah 11:9

On Zion, God's sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil. The land will be as full of knowledge of the Lord as the seas are full of water.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a place to hide from storms. They will be like streams flowing in a desert, like the shadow of a giant rock in a barren land.

Lamentations 4:20

They captured the source of our life, the king the Lord had chosen, the one we had trusted to protect us from every invader.

Ezekiel 17:23

on Israel's highest mountain. It will grow branches and bear seed and become a magnificent cedar. Birds of every kind will live there and find shelter in its shade.

Matthew 13:32

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows up, it is the biggest of all plants. It becomes a tree, so that birds come and make their nests in its branches.”

Mark 4:31

It is like this. A man takes a mustard seed, the smallest seed in the world, and plants it in the ground.

Mark 4:33

Jesus preached his message to the people, using many other parables like these; he told them as much as they could understand.