 | James Dixon Douglas - Bibles - 1993 - 938 pages
...away." 26 He also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, -"¡UK! 30 He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?... | |
 | Robert H. Stein - Religion - 1994 - 228 pages
...others. This clearly reveals their general nature. An example of a similitude is found in Mark 4:26-29: The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter...in with his sickle, because the harvest has come. Compare also MARK 4:30-32; MATT 13:33; 18:12-14; LUKE 11:11-13; Luke 15:8-10; 17:7-10. Story Parable.... | |
 | Phillip J. Cunningham - Religion - 1995 - 196 pages
...makes a point very similar to "The Sower," which may be why the other evangelists do not include it: The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter...in with his sickle, because the harvest has come. (4:26-29) Mark again reassures his readers by pointing out that the harvest is after all not the result... | |
 | Sofia Cavalletti, Patricia M. Coulter, Gianna Gobbi, Silvana Q. Montanaro - Catholic children - 1995 - 116 pages
...seed of grain the farmer sows in the ground; it sprouts and grows, he knows not how (Mark 4:26-28). The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter...stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. All three parables show us the beginning and ending moments of a process, without lingering over the... | |
 | Douglas R. A. Hare - Religion - 1996 - 248 pages
...and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. - 8 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then...he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has Mark does not indicate whether this parable and the following one are addressed to the disciples alone... | |
 | Douglas John Hall - Religion - 1998 - 194 pages
...many of the parables of Jesus — for instance, the "Parable of the Growing Seed": [Jesus] also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter...with his sickle, because the harvest has come." (Mark 4:26-29) The seed has been planted, and it is a good seed. It is also a very small seed, as Jesus will... | |
 | Donal Harrington, Julie Kavanagh - Church meetings - 1998 - 256 pages
...as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise, night and day, and the see would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth...with his sickle, because the harvest has come.' (Mark 4:26-29) Meditation Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are, quite naturally, impatient in... | |
 | Lydia Marlene Harder, Lydia Neufeld Harder - Religion - 1998 - 185 pages
...chapter carry on the ambiguity. "The kingdom is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground" (4:26), "the earth produces of itself first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head" (4:28), it is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground. . . . becomes the greatest of... | |
 | Tilden Edwards - Religion - 1998 - 278 pages
...day, and the seed would sprout and grow, 52 THE GOSPEL OF MARK MADE EASY he does not know how. ^he earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come." 39He... | |
 | Walter Schmithals - Religion - 1997 - 416 pages
...by contrast, relates both parables to the Christian church, which, like the grain that brings forth "first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head" (4:28), grows from small beginnings into a large tree and has the promise of eschatological fulfillment... | |
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The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in... 
