The Parable of the Growing Seed (MRK 4:26-29)

[4:26] Jesus went on to say, “The Kingdom of God is like this. A man scatters seed in his field.

[4:27] He sleeps at night, is up and about during the day, and all the while the seeds are sprouting and growing. Yet he does not know how it happens.

[4:28] The soil itself makes the plants grow and bear fruit; first the tender stalk appears, then the head, and finally the head full of grain.

[4:29] When the grain is ripe, the man starts cutting it with his sickle, because harvest time has come.