Mark 4:27 “Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, tho…”

Mark 4:27

Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

American Standard Version

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

Geneva Bible 1599

And shoulde sleepe, and rise vp night and day, and the seede should spring and growe vp, he not knowing howe.

Darby Translation

and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.

Young's Literal Translation

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

Bible in Basic English

And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

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Cross references

“and grow”

Ecclesiastes 11:5 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Ecclesiastes 8:17 2 Peter 3:18 John 3:7 John 3:8

Ecclesiastes 11:5 · BSB

As 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.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 · BSB

We 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:17 · BSB

I 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…

2 Peter 3:18 · BSB

But 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.

John 3:7 · BSB

Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’

John 3:8 · BSB

The 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.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

28All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.

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