| 26 | And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, |
| 27 | and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. |
| 28 | The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. |
| 29 | But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." |