Mark 4:28

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Cross References

Genesis 2:9

And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Proverbs 4:18

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

Ecclesiastes 3:1

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Matthew 13:26

So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.

Mark 4:27

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

Mark 4:29

But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Philippians 1:6

And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:10

to lead a life worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.