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Mark 4:30
And he said, "To what will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we use for it?
Mark 4:30 · New Heart English Bible
Mark 4:30 in other translations
And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
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?
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In context
27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he does not know how.
28 For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."
30 And he said, "To what will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we use for it?
31 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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