Mark 4:26
Good News Translation
Jesus went on to say, "The Kingdom of God is like this. A man scatters seed in his field.

New Revised Standard Version
He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,

Contemporary English Version
Again Jesus said: God's kingdom is like what happens when a farmer scatters seed in a field.

New American Bible
He said, “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth,

So.

Matthew 3:2 And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 13:11,31,33 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. . . .

Luke 13:18 He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it?

as.

Mark 4:3,4,14 Hear ye: Behold, the sower went out to sow. . . .

*etc:

Proverbs 11:18 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Ecclesiastes 11:4,6 He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall never reap. . . .

Isaiah 28:24-26 Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground? . . .

Isaiah 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

Matthew 13:3,24 And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow. . . .

Luke 8:5,11 The sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the way side. And it was trodden down: and the fowls of the air devoured it. . . .

John 4:36-38 And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. . . .

John 12:24 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

1 Corinthians 3:6-9 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase. . . .

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

1 Peter 1:23-25 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. . . .

Context
The Seed Growing Secretly
25For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken away from him. 26And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth, 27And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:24
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.

Mark 4:25
For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken away from him.

Mark 4:27
And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.

Mark 4:25
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