563rd Post Jesus Said Concerning Parables Con't. - Parables About Growth in the Kingdom Con't. - Parable of Natural Growth - 1st Post - Mark 4: 26 - 29.

Mark 4: 26 - 29 Parable of Natural Growth 1st Post.
The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.  For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.  But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.
This was spoken by Jesus about 1- 1.1/2 years into His earthly Ministry.  All of these parables that start with the kingdom of God is..., were told by Jesus to try to give us a picture of the Kingdom of God.  The book I am writing, will list all of these parables together.  They were told by Jesus together, because each parable builds on the previous parable to better explain whatever Jesus was trying to explain, in this case it is the kingdom of God.  All of these parables dealing with the kingdom of God, need to be looked at, together in order to understand what Jesus was trying to say.  If you look at the parable written above, Jesus likens the kingdom of God, to a man who scatters seed on the ground.  The seed grows, the man does not know how, he just knows that if he plants the seed it will grow.  The man goes to sleep at night, and the seed grows on its own.  I have run out of room for this post, we will continue next post.