Mark 4:27

New International Reader's Version

Night and day the seed comes up and grows. It happens whether the farmer sleeps or gets up. He doesn’t know how it happens.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 11:5

You don’t know the path the wind takes. You don’t know how a baby is made inside its mother. So you can’t understand how God works either. He made everything.

Ecclesiastes 8:17

I saw everything God has done. No one can understand what happens on earth. People might try very hard to figure it out. But they still can’t discover what it all means. Wise people might claim they know. But they can’t really understand it either.

Mark 4:26

Jesus also said, “Here is what God’s kingdom is like. A farmer scatters seed on the ground.

Mark 4:28

All by itself the soil produces grain. First the stalk comes up. Then the head appears. Finally, the full grain appears in the head.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

Brothers and sisters, we should always thank God for you. That is only right, because your faith is growing more and more. We also thank God that the love you all have for one another is increasing.

2 Peter 3:18

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to him both now and forever. Amen.