27. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.
28. All by itself the soil produces corn – first the stalk, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
29. As soon as the corn is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.’
30. Again he said, ‘What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?