The Seed Growing Secretly

Jesus says the kingdom of God is like seed scattered on the ground. The sower carries on with ordinary life while the seed grows on its own, stage by stage, until the harvest is ready and the sickle is brought in.

J²⁶esus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. ²⁷Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how. ²⁸All by itself the earth produces a crop— first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within. ²⁹And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come. ”