Mark 4:32 — Meaning and Application

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“But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.”

Mark 4:32

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And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

{It 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:

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear {it}.

But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

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Mark 4:1

"And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land."

Mark 4:2

"And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,"

Mark 4:3

"Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:"

Mark 4:4

"And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up."

Mark 4:5

"And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:"

Mark 4:6

"But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away."

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