Mark 4:26-32

26He also said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

27He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

29And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

30He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

31It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

32when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”