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Mark 4:30
And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
Mark 4:30 · King James Version
Mark 4:30 in other translations
Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?
He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
And he said, "To what will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we use for it?
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In context
27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
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