^{26 Ref} And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;

^{27 Ref} and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

^{28 Ref} The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

^{29 Ref} But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come.

^{30 Ref} And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth?

^{31 Ref} It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

^{32 Ref} yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.