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Mark 4:28

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

and the cup His blood, if they do not call Himself the Son of the Creator of the world, that is, His Word, through whom the wood fructifies, and the fountains gush forth, and the earth gives "first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear."[253]

Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins

First comes the grain, and from the grain arises the shoot, and from the shoot struggles out the shrub: thereafter boughs and leaves gather strength, and the whole that we call a tree expands: then follows the swelling of the germen, and from the germen bursts the flower, and from the flower the fruit opens: that fruit itself, rude for a while, and unshapely, little by little, keeping the straight course of its development, is trained to the mellowness of its flavour.[7]

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    MARK 4:28 plh,rh@j# si/ton {C} Among the several variant readings, the reading plh,rh si/ton (a A C2 L D ¦1 ¦13) is the most classical, with...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 28. _BRINGETH FORTH - OF HERSELF_] αυτοματη. By its own energy, without either the influence or industry of man. Similar to this is the expression of the poet: - _Namque aliae_, NULLIS HOMlNUM...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE EARTH BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF - That is, it is done without the power of man. It is done while man is engaged in other things. The scope of this passage does not require us to suppose...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Teaching by the Seaside. The Parable of the Sower. (Mark 4:1. Matthew 13:1; Luke 8:4 .)_ 2. The Word to shine forth in testimony. (Mar

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The teaching in parables to the multitude is now resumed, and two further examples are given, those of the seed growing secretly and the mustard seed. The first is peculiar to Mk. Loisy interprets it...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    TEACHING IN PARABLES (Mark 4:1-2)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    He said to them: "This is what the Kingdom of God is like. It is like what happens when a man casts seed upon the earth. He sleeps and he wakes night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows--and he do...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OF HERSELF. Greek. _automate =_ automatically. The word occurs only here and Acts 12:10. Galen (quoted by Wetstein) says it means "Not as being without. cause, but without. cause proceeding from us"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _of herself_ = _of its own accord_, spontaneously. It is used of the gate of St Peter's prison _opening of its own accord_in Acts 12:10. _first the blade_ There is a law of orderly development in nat...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Seed growing secretly 26. _as if a man should cast seed into the ground_ This is _the only parable which is peculiar to St Mark_, and seems to take the place of "the Leaven" recorded by St Matthe...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    28. [806][807][808][809][810] omit γάρ. Cf. Mark 3:35. It is impossible to determine the original Greek for “the full corn”; perhaps πλήρη σῖτον ([811][812][813]2[814][815][816]) is right; but it may...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    26–29. THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY AND AUTOMATICALLY Omitted by Mt. and Lk...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _JESUS SPOKE ABOUT CANDLES AND SEED MARK 4:21-34:_ Often we act much more foolish in our spiritual lives than we would ever consider doing in our physical lives. Men would never light a candle to prod...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΑΎΤΟΜΆΤΗ (G844) сам по себе — о том, что происходит без видимой причины (BAGD; Rainer Stuhlmann, "Beobachtungen und Oberlegungen zu Markus iv. 26-29" NTS 19 [1972/73]: 153-62). ΚΑΡΠΟΦΟΡΕΊ _praes. ind...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1423 THE SPRINGING FIELD Mark 4:26. And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD,— In this parable we are informed, that as the husbandman does not, by any efficacy of his own, cause the seed to grow, but leaves it to be nourished by the soil and sun; so J...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _SUMMARY 4:1-34_ In the parables of this section, especially in those of the sower, the seed and the mustard seed, the prophetic power of Jesus is clearly exhibited. Without superhuman foresight he co...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. THE PARABLE OF SECRET GROWTH. 4:26-29 _TEXT 4:26-29_ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed shou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. FOR THE EARTH BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF; FIRST THE BLADE, THEN THE EAR, AFT...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    10-13 Compare Mat_13:10-17; Luk_8:9-10. 11 The kingdom of God had been foretold and typified in their sacred Scriptures, but now the Lord is unfolding a phase of its history which was unknown to the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARABLE OF THE SOWER. STILLING THE TEMPEST 1-9. Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1; Luke 8:4). See on Mt....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY (the only parable peculiar to Mk). Tatian in his 'Diates-saron' places it immediately before the Tares. Such a position for it is suitable, but it is wrong to regard it, with...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRST THE BLADE, etc.] Therefore missionaries who have no results to show, are not to be discouraged. In India at present, few converts are made, but the seed is being sown, and the time of the harves...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 4 THE STORY ABOUT THE SEEDS VERSES 1-9 Every farmer knows that he must plant his s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE EARTH BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF. — Stress is laid on the spontaneity of growth; and the lesson drawn from it is obviously one at once of patience and of faith. It is not well in the spiritua...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 4:26-29 (MARK 4:26) THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY "And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    αὐτομάτη (αὐτός and μέμαα from absolute μάω, to desire eagerly), self-moved, spontaneously, without external aid, and also beyond external control; with a way and will, so to speak, of its own that mu...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Parable of the Blade, the Ear, and the Full Corn_. Peculiar to Mark and beyond doubt a genuine utterance of Jesus, the doctrine taught being over the head of the reporter and the Apostolic Church gen...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GROWTH IN GOD'S KINGDOM Mark 4:10-41 How quick the Master was to observe the meaning of natural symbols! To Him all things were unfoldings of eternal mystery, and the ways of men unconsciously mirror...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In verses Mark 4:1; Mark 4:10, we have the explanation of the reason of the parabolic teaching of Jesus. He clothed divine truth in picture forms that men might more easily look upon it and learn it,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For the earth bringeth forth fruit (i) of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. (i) By a certain power which moves itself....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    THE PROGRESSIVE GRACE IN THE HEART Mark 4:26-34. “And He said, Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man may cast seed upon the ground, and he may sleep, and it springs up, night and day, and the seed ge...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (26) And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground: (27) And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. (28...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD_ ‘And (Jesus) said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; … when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    This introduces the true character and result of His own service, and all the history of the service that should be accomplished unto a far distant future; as well as the responsibility of His discipl...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE EARTH BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF,.... Without any further help, or cultivation from the husbandman; though under the influence of the sun, dews, and showers of rain from heaven: this is s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Ver. 28. _First the blade, then the ear_] And the husbandman looks upon it with deli...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Mark 4:26, 27, 28. "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth no...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    OF HERSELF; by the power which God gives, not man. FIRST THE BLADE; small shoot. THEN THE EAR; the stalk and head. FULL CORN; the kernels full grown....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The parable of the seed:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR THE EARTH BRINGETH FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF; FIRST THE BLADE, THEN THE EAR, AFTER THAT THE FULL CORN IN THE EAR....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    His teaching now at the seaside corresponds to Matthew 13:1, but only two of the seven parables in Matthew are mentioned here, for Matthew gives a full dispensational picture, while Mark dwells simply...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    TITLE: How does your garden grow? TEXT: Mark 4:26-30 PROPOSITION: We are involved but can't explain the process of growth. QUESTION: How? KEY WORD: Evidences SCRIPTURE READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-34 These declarations were intended to call the attention of the disciples to the word of Christ. By his thus instructing them, they were made able to instruct others; as candles are lighted, not...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MARK 4:2 6 ...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Mark 4:28 For G1063 earth G1093 crops G2592 (G5719) itself G844 first G4412 blade G5528 then G1534 head...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD WILL NOW BE SPREAD WIDELY AND WILL PRODUCE ABUNDANT FRUIT (4:1-34). As we have already seen the Gospel began with Jesus Christ as God's beloved Son and has gradua...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY UNTIL THE HARVEST (4:26-29). Jesus now illustrates the certainty of the harvest which will come about through God's secret work in the world. Man casts the seed on the earth,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO PARABLES EMPHASISING NEW BIRTH AND GROWTH (4:26-32). Jesus follow up the parable of the sower with two parables about new birth and growth. In these the seed of the word is sown, and it produces n...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Mark 4:26-29. THE PARABLE OF THE SEED GROWING, WE KNOW NOT HOW. Found here only....

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    ON PARABLES, see the note on Matthew 13:1-52. In his report of the discourse in parables, Mark gives but three, one of them not mentioned elsewhere. Each independently chose these out of the many utte...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Mark 4:28. This verse presents the main points of the parable, _first:_ THE EARTH BEARETH FRUIT OF HERSELF, as if from a self-acting power. The growth in nature is according to certain laws which act...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    OF HERSELF (αυτοματη). Automatically, we say. The secret of growth is in the seed, not in the soil nor in the weather nor in the cultivating. These all help, but the seed spontaneously works accordi...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Mark 4:26 We have in this parable: I. A most simple, yet striking representation of the business, and, at the same time, the helplessness of the spiritual husbandman. To the ministers of the Gospel,...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Mark 4:26 Christ's Idea of Christianity. I. The kingdom of God, or the beginning of a truly religious life in the soul of a man, may be obscure, imperceptible and unconscious. When a man is building...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Mark 4:28 The seed cast into the ground is undoubtedly to be understood of the knowledge of good which may be at any time laid before the mind of another. We have an opportunity, it may be, of doing t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Parable of the sower. Parable of the candle. Parable of the mustard seed. Jesus stills the storm. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, disciples. CONCLUSION: The present age is a time for missions an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Mark 4:12. _That seeing they may see, and not perceive._ St. Luke gives the true sense of these words, which often occur. Acts 28:26. They mark, according to Dr. Lightfoot, the obduracy which fell on...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    FIRST THE TENDER STALK APPEARS. Growth is a gradual process. Things both good and bad develop over a period of time. This parable is about the spreading of Christ's Kingdom. The Truth, planted, grows...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MARK—NOTE ON MARK 4:26 The people of Jesus’ day expected God’s kingdom to come suddenly, but Jesus tells them it will begin in a small way (FIRST THE BLADE, THEN THE EAR) and then will grow slowly but...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MARK—NOTE ON MARK 4:1 Mark provides several examples of Jesus teaching in parables. To the hard-hearted, parables are a warning; to those who are open-hearted, they illustrate principles of the messia...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 4 1 _The parable of the sower_, 14 _and the meaning thereof_. 21 _We must communicate the light of our knowledge to others_. 26 _The parable of the seed growing secretly_, 30 _and of the musta...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit; first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear._ Arabic, _Because the earth alone bringeth forth fruit;._.. _afterwards the ear is fi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 4:29. BUT AS SOON AS THE FRUIT IS MATURE, STRAIGHTWAY HE PUTTETH FORTH THE SICKLE, etc. Cp. Joel 4:13 (LXX.). See also 1 Peter 1:23; Revelation 14:14. MAIN HOMILE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MARK 4:1 AND AGAIN HE BEGAN TO TEACH BY THE SEASIDE. This return to the seaside is mentioned by St. Mark only. From this time our Lord's teaching began to be more public. The room and the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the gospel according to Mark, chapter 4. Beginning in chapter 4, we have the beginning of the ministry of Christ in parables. There is often times a mistaken opinion...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:13; Colossians 1:10; Ecclesiastes 3:1;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Of herself [α υ τ ο μ α τ η]. Lit., self - acting. It occurs in only one other passage of the New Testament, Acts 12:10; of the city gate which opened to Peter of its own accord....

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    GETTING WHAT YOU GIVE Mark 4:24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are many "as" and "sos" in the "Word of God. These cover various lines of consideration. Let us suggest one or two of these before we take u...

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