Mark 4:23-33

²³If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

²⁴And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you.

²⁵For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken away from him.

²⁶And he said: So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the earth,

²⁷And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.

²⁸For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.

²⁹And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

³⁰And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it?

³¹It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth:

³²And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof.

³³And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.