Friday, January 27, 2023 | Mark 4:26-34

Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as

if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and

day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own

accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in

the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the

harvest has come.”

He said, “To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable

can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the

ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. But once it is sown, it

springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches,

so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”

With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to

understand it. Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own

disciples he explained everything in private.