The Parable of the Growing Seed
26 And He said, (Matt. 13:24–30, 36–43); Luke 8:1"The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and (2 Cor. 3:18; 2 Pet. 3:18)grow, he himself does not know how.28 For the earth (John 12:24)yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.29 But when the grain ripens, immediately (Mark 13:30, 39); Rev. 14:15he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."