Mark 4:27
New International Version
Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

New Living Translation
Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.

English Standard Version
He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.

Berean Standard Bible
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.

Berean Literal Bible
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow--he not knows how.

King James Bible
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

New King James Version
and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.

New American Standard Bible
and he goes to bed at night and gets up daily, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

NASB 1995
and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows— how, he himself does not know.

NASB 1977
and goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts up and grows—how, he himself does not know.

Legacy Standard Bible
and he sleeps and rises, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.

Amplified Bible
and he goes to bed at night and gets up every day, and [in the meantime] the seed sprouts and grows; how [it does this], he does not know.

Christian Standard Bible
He sleeps and rises night and day; the seed sprouts and grows, although he doesn’t know how.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
he sleeps and rises—night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows—he doesn’t know how.

American Standard Version
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And he shall sleep and arise by night and by day and the seed grows and lengthens while he is unaware.”

Contemporary English Version
The farmer sleeps at night and is up and around during the day. Yet the seeds keep sprouting and growing, and he doesn't understand how.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And should sleep, and rise, night and day, and the seed should spring, and grow up whilst he knoweth not.

English Revised Version
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He sleeps at night and is awake during the day. The seeds sprout and grow, although the man doesn't know how.

Good News Translation
He sleeps at night, is up and about during the day, and all the while the seeds are sprouting and growing. Yet he does not know how it happens.

International Standard Version
He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how

Literal Standard Version
and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed springs up and grows, he has not known how;

Majority Standard Bible
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.

New American Bible
and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.

NET Bible
He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

New Revised Standard Version
and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.

New Heart English Bible
and he sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed springs up and grows; he doesn't know how.

Webster's Bible Translation
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

Weymouth New Testament
he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.

World English Bible
and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

Young's Literal Translation
and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Seed Growing Secretly
26Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night 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.…

Cross References
Mark 4:26
Jesus also said, "The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.

Mark 4:28
All by itself the earth produces a crop--first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.


Treasury of Scripture

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.

and grow.

Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

John 3:7,8
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again…

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Mark 4
1. The parable of the sower,
14. and the meaning thereof.
21. We must communicate the light of our knowledge to others.
26. The parable of the seed growing secretly;
30. and of the mustard seed.
35. Jesus stills the storm on the sea.














(27) And should sleep, and rise.--So it was in the world's history. Men knew not the greatness of the new force that had been brought into action. Philosophers and statesmen ignored it. Even the very preachers of the new faith, the "sowers" of the parable, were hardly conscious of the enormous revolution which they were working. So it is in the individual life. The seemingly chance word, the new truth that flashes on the soul as a revelation, the old words now for the first time apprehended in their true force, these prove to be the seeds of a new growth in the soul.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Night
νύκτα (nykta)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3571: The night, night-time. A primary word; 'night'.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

day
ἡμέραν (hēmeran)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

he sleeps
καθεύδῃ (katheudē)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2518: To sleep, be sleeping. From kata and heudo; to lie down to rest, i.e. to fall asleep.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

wakes,
ἐγείρηται (egeirētai)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1453: (a) I wake, arouse, (b) I raise up. Probably akin to the base of agora; to waken, i.e. Rouse.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

seed
σπόρος (sporos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4703: Seed for sowing. From speiro; a scattering, i.e. seed.

sprouts
βλαστᾷ (blasta)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 985: Intrans: I sprout; trans: I cause to sprout, make to grow up. From blastos; to germinate; by implication, to yield fruit.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

grows,
μηκύνηται (mēkynētai)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3373: To lengthen, extend, grow. From mekos; to lengthen, i.e. to enlarge.

[though] he
αὐτός (autos)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

knows
οἶδεν (oiden)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

not
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

how.
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.


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