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Mark 4:27
Mark 4:27 is verse 27 of Mark chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
King James Version
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
World English Bible
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.
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Mark 4:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 For whoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
26 Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
27 Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
28 All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.
29 And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ecclesiastes 8:17I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
Ecclesiastes 11:5As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
John 3:7Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’
John 3:8The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 15:37And what you sow is not the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or something else.
1 Corinthians 15:38But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body.
2 Thessalonians 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
2 Peter 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.