“And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;”
He also said, this is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground — the parable of the growing seed (Mark 4:26–29) is unique to Mark, appearing in no other Gospel. It addresses the kingdom's mysterious, self-generating growth — the aspect of the kingdom most likely to confuse disciples who expect visible, dramatic, immediate expansion. A man scatters seed: the action is the same as the sower parable, but the emphasis shifts from soil types to the seed's own growth process. The man's role is merely to sow; what happens to the seed after sowing is not the man's work.
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