Mark 4:23-33

²³If any man have ears of hearing, hear he.

²⁴And he said to them, See ye what ye hear. In what measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you again, and it shall be cast to you (or By which measure ye measure, it shall be measured unto you again, yea, it shall be thrown unto you).

²⁵For it shall be given to him that hath, and it shall be taken away from him that hath not, also that that he hath. Forsooth it shall be given to him that hath, and if a man hath not, yea this that he hath shall be taken away from him.

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

²⁷and he sleep, and it rise up night and day, and bring forth seed, and wax fast (or grow fast), while he knoweth not.

²⁸For the earth by his own working, or by his own will, (or by its own working, or by its own will), maketh fruit, first the grass, afterward the ear, and afterward full fruit in the ear.

²⁹And when of itself it hath brought forth fruit, anon (or at once) he sendeth a sickle, for reaping time is come.

³⁰And he said, To what thing shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we comparison it?

³¹As a corn of sinapi, (or Like a kernel, or a grain, of mustard seed), which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all (the) seeds that be in the earth;

³²and when it is sprung up, it waxeth into a tree (or it groweth into a tree), and is made greater than all (the) herbs; and it maketh great branches, so that the birds of (the) heaven(s) may dwell under the shadow thereof (or so that the birds of the air can live under its shadow).

³³And in many such parables he spake to them the word, as they might hear (or as much as they could understand);