Mark 4:28

The earth produces fruit by stages, blade then ear then full grain. It matters because it shows the kingdom develops gradually and surely toward harvest.

Cross-references · 17

• Phil 1:9–11This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• Mark 4:31–32It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• 1 Th 3:12–13and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
• Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Matt 13:26But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• Isa 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
• Eccl 3:1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
• Eccl 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
• Ps 92:13–14They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
• Gen 4:11–12Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
• Ps 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
• Gen 1:11–12God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.
• Gen 2:4–5This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Gen 2:9Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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