Mark 4:32

Modern English Version

Yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all shrubs, and shoots out great branches, so that the birds of the air may nest in its shade.”

Cross References

Psalm 104:12

By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; they sing among the branches.

Psalm 91:1

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Proverbs 4:18

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

Song of Solomon 2:3

Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my delightful one among the young men. I sat down in his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Isaiah 11:9

They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 32:2

A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 17:23

On the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it. And it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a splendid cedar. And under it all fowl of every wing shall nest. In the shadow of its branches they shall nest.

Matthew 13:32

This indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the greatest among herbs and is a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

Mark 4:31

It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest seed on earth.

Mark 4:33

With many such parables He spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it.