Category:Growing Seed (subject)

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The Growing Seed was one of the Parables of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Mark (4:26-29); see also Thomas (21).

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The Growing Seed in ancient sources

Gospel of Mark

Mark 4:26-39 (NRSV) -- 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. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come."

Gospel of Thomas

Thomas 21 -- ...Let there be among you a person who understands. When the crop ripened, he came quickly carrying a sickle and harvested it...

The Growing Seed in Scholarship

The Growing Seed in Fiction

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