{"id":9948,"date":"2024-08-29T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9948"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:27:16","slug":"mark-chapter-4-the-parable-of-the-growing-seed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jesusdidsay.com\/?page_id=9948","title":{"rendered":"Mark Chapter 4 The Parable of the Growing Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>26\u00a0<\/sup>He also said,\u00a0<mark style=\\\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#ff0000\\\" class=\\\"has-inline-color\\\">\u201cThis is what the kingdom of God is like.\u00a0A man scatters seed on the ground.\u00a0<sup>27\u00a0<\/sup>Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.\u00a0<sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>All by itself the soil produces grain\u2014first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.\u00a0<sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26\u00a0He also said,\u00a0\u201cThis is what the kingdom of God is like.\u00a0A man scatters seed on the ground.\u00a027\u00a0Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.\u00a028\u00a0All by itself the soil produces grain\u2014first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.\u00a029\u00a0As soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9948","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Chapter 4 The Parable of the Growing Seed &#8212; 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