Mark 4:32

New American Standard Bible 2020

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that the birds of the sky can nest under its shade.”

Cross References

Psalm 104:12

The birds of the sky dwell beside them; They lift up their voices from among the branches.

Psalm 91:1

One who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will lodge in the shadow of the Almighty.

Proverbs 4:18

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

Song of Solomon 2:3

¶“Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the young men. In his shade I took great delight and sat down, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Isaiah 11:9

They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord As the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 32:2

Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in an exhausted land.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, “In his shadow We shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 17:23

On the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, so that it may bring forth branches and bear fruit, and become a stately cedar. And birds of every kind will nest under it; they will nest in the shade of its branches.

Matthew 13:32

and this is smaller than all the other seeds, but when it is fully grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

Mark 4:31

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,

Mark 4:33

And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to understand it;