Mark 4:26-32

26“The kingdom of God is like this,” he said. “A man scatters seed on the ground.

27He sleeps and rises night and day; the seed sprouts and grows, although he doesn’t know how.

28The soil produces a crop by itself — first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.

29As soon as the crop is ready, he sends for the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

30And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?

31It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown upon the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on the ground.

32And when sown, it comes up and grows taller than all the garden plants, and produces large branches, so that the birds of the sky can nest in its shade.”