Mark 4:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

The Parable of the Growing Seed

²⁶ He also said, ‘The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, ²⁷ and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. ²⁸ The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.