Mark 4:26-41 ▼

26 And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;

27 and he sleeps and rises, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

28 The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.

29 But when the grain is ripe, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

30 And He was saying, “How shall we compare the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?

31 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,

32 yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes largest of all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE.”

33 And with many such parables He was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it;

34 and He was not speaking to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

35 And on that day, when evening came, He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”

36 And leaving the crowd, they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.

37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was already filling up.

38 And Jesus Himself was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion; and they got Him up and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

39 And He woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

40 And He said to them, “Why are you so cowardly? Do you still have no faith?”

41 And they became very afraid and were saying to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”