NAS - Mark 4:26-41

Parable of the Seed

²⁶And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;²⁷and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know.²⁸"The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.²⁹"But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."

Parable of the Mustard Seed

³⁰And He said, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?³¹"It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,³²yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE."

³³With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it; ³⁴and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Jesus Stills the Sea

³⁵On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, "Let us go over to the other side."³⁶Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him. ³⁷And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up. ³⁸Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" ³⁹And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still."And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm. ⁴⁰And He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?"⁴¹They became very much afraid and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"