Mark 4:28

New English Translation

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

Cross References

Genesis 2:9

The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Isaiah 61:11

For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

Hosea 6:3

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

Matthew 13:26

When the plants sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

Mark 4:27

He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

Mark 4:29

And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

Philippians 1:6

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,