Mark 4:26-41 ▼

26 And He said, “Thus is the Kingdom of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

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

28 for of itself the earth bears fruit, first a blade, afterward an ear, afterward full grain in the ear;

29 and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

30 And He said, “To what may we liken the Kingdom of God, or in what allegory may we compare it?

31 As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

32 and whenever it may be sown, it comes up, and becomes greater than any of the herbs, and makes great branches, so that under its shade the birds of the sky are able to rest.”

33 And with many such allegories He was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,

34 and without an allegory He was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to His disciples He was expounding all.

35 And He says to them on that day, evening having come, “We may pass over to the other side”;

36 and having let away the multitude, they take Him up as He was in the boat, and other little boats were also with Him.

37 And there comes a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled,

38 and He Himself was on the stern, sleeping on the pillow, and they wake Him up, and say to Him, “Teacher, are You not caring that we perish?”

39 And having awoken, He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace, be stilled”; and the wind stilled, and there was a great calm;

40 and He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How have you no faith?”

41 And they feared a great fear and said to one another, “Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”