The Parable of the Seed Growing
26 And he said, [Matt. 13:24-30]"The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; [Eccles. 11:5,6]he knows not how.28 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.29 But when the grain is ripe, at once Joel 3:13;Rev. 14:15he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."