Mark 4:29

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Job 5:26

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

Joel 3:13

Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the wine press is full. The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ ”

Mark 4:28

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

Revelation 14:18

Then another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”