Mark 4:28

New American Bible - revised edition

Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Cross References

Genesis 2:9

Out of the ground the Lord God made grow every tree that was delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever he does prospers.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is like shining light, that grows in brilliance till perfect day.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.

Isaiah 61:11

As the earth brings forth its shoots, and a garden makes its seeds spring up, So will the Lord God make justice spring up, and praise before all the nations.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us strive to know the Lord; as certain as the dawn is his coming. He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth.”

Matthew 13:26

When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.

Mark 4:27

and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.

Mark 4:29

And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.” The Mustard Seed.

Philippians 1:6

I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:10

to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of God,