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27 and would be sleeping and arising night and day, and the seed would be budding and growing-long— how, he does not[a] know. 28 The soil bears-fruit by-itself [b]— first grass, then a head, then a full grain in the head. 29 And whenever the fruit permits[c], immediately he[d] sends-forth the sickle because the harvest has come[e]”.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:27 The seed has life in it, and grows without the assistance or understanding of the sower. The sower sows. God causes the growth in ways the sower does not understand. Then the person harvests the fruit.
  2. Mark 4:28 Or, on-its-own.
  3. Mark 4:29 Lit, hands-itself-over. That is, when it has ripened itself.
  4. Mark 4:29 That is, the person who sowed the seed.
  5. Mark 4:29 Or, is here.

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