VerseTheophylact of Ohrid, 12th c. — Commentary on Mark Read all of Mark 4 →
Mark 4:29
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“And when the "harvest" comes, then the "sickle" gathers the fruits. This "sickle" is the Word of God, and the "harvest" is the time of death.”
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29But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
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27And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
28For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
— Mark 4:29 —
30And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: