Mark 4:24-39

²⁴Then He said to them, “Watch what you hear. By what measure you measure, it will be measured out to you; and more will be added to you who hear.

²⁵For whoever has, more will be given to him; and he who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

²⁶And He said, “Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed on the ground,

²⁷and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and should grow, he himself does not know how.

²⁸For the earth produces crops by itself: first a shoot, then a head of grain, then full wheat in the head of grain.

²⁹But whenever the crop permits, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

³⁰Then He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God? Or by what sort of parable shall we illustrate it?

³¹It is like a mustard seed, which whenever it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth;

³²but whenever it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all the garden vegetables, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to nest under its shade.”

³³And by many such parables He would speak the word to them, just as they were able to hear it.

³⁴And apart from a parable He did not speak to them, however, privately to His disciples, he would explain all things.

³⁵On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”

³⁶And leaving the crowd, they took Him along as He was in the boat. And other little boats were also with Him.

³⁷And there was a severe windstorm, and the waves dashed up into the boat, so that it was already filling up.

³⁸But He was in the stern, sleeping upon the cushion. And they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Does it not matter to You that we are perishing?”

³⁹And having awakened He rebuked the wind, and He said to the sea, “Peace, be still.” And the wind abated and there was a great calm.