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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Mark 4:27

And should sleep, and rise. — So it was in the world’s history. Men knew not the greatness of the new force that had been brought into action. Philosophers and statesmen ignored it. Even the very preachers of the new faith, the “sowers” of the parable, were hardly conscious of the enormous revolution which they were working. So it is in the individual life. The seemingly chance word, the new truth that flashes on the soul as a revelation, the old words now for the first time apprehended in their true force, these prove to be the seeds of a new growth in the soul.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 27. _AND SHOULD SLEEP AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY_] That is, he should _sleep_ by _night_, and _rise_ by _day_; for so the words are obviously to be understood. _HE KNOWETH NOT HOW._] How a plant gr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY - Should sleep in the night and rise by day, for so the expression is to be understood. That is, should live in his usual way, without exerting any influence o...

  • 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)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE. These Present Tenses, following the Past in Mark 4:26, indicate the continued rising and sleeping after the seed was sown. SPRING. sprout. GROW UP. lengthen. KNOWETH. has no...

  • 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 Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _spring and grow up_ We need not inquire too minutely who the Sower is, though primarily it refers to the Lord Himself. It is the property of the seed which is intended to engage our attention, the se...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΒΛΑΣΤΑ͂Ι ([787][788][789][790][791][792]) rather than βλαστάνῃ ([793][794][795]2) or βλαστάνει ([796][797][798] 33). ΜΗΚΎΝΕΤΑΙ ([799][800][801][802]) rather than μηκύνηται ([803][804][805]2 etc.). [78...

  • 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

    ΚΑΘΕΎΔΗ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΚΑΘΕΎΔΩ (G2518) спать, ΈΓΕΊΡΗΤΑΙ _praes. conj. pass. от_ ΕΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453), _pass._ подниматься, пробуждаться. Об использовании _conj. см._ Mark 4:26. ΝΎΚΤΑ _асс. sing. о...

  • 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

    And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. AND SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY - go about his other ordinary occupations, leaving it...

  • 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

    SLEEP, AND RISE] i.e. ministers of the gospel having preached the word are to pursue their ordinary employments without undue anxiety. Visible results may be slow, but the seed is sure to germinate, b...

  • 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...

  • 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)

    καθεύδῃ … ἡμέραν, sleep and rise night and day, suggestive of the monotonous life of a man who has nothing particular to do beyond waiting patiently for the result of what he has already done (seed so...

  • 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

    And (g) should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he (h) knoweth not how. (g) That is, when he has finished sowing should wait both day and night not doubting that...

  • 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

    AND SHOULD SLEEP,.... That is, the man that casts in the seed, who represents the ministers of the Gospel: and, as applied to them, is not to be understood of natural sleep, and indulging themselves i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. Ver. 27. _And should sleep_] Ministers must rest secure with the success of their endeavours, hav...

  • 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)

    SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY; should sleep by night and rise by day. The seed does not come suddenly to maturity, but by a gradual process, while he who sowed it pursues his ordinary course of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The parable of the seed:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY, AND THE SEED SHOULD SPRING AND GROW UP, HE KNOWETH NOT HOW....

  • 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 4:27 and G2532 sleep G2518 (G5725) night G3571 and G2532 rise G1453 (G5747) day G2250...

  • 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...

  • 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

    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...

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

    Mark 4:27. AND SHOULD SLEEP, etc., _i.e.,_ live as usual without further care of the seed sown. HE KNOWETH NOT HOW. The emphasis rests on the word ‘he; ‘he who sows does not know how that takes plac...

  • 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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    SHOULD SLEEP AND RISE (καθευδη κα εγειρητα). Present subjunctive for continued action. So alsoSPRING UP AND GROW (βλαστα κα μηκυνητα) two late verbs. The process of growth goes on all night and a...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Mark 4:26 Mysterious growth. We little think how much is always going on in what we may call the underground of life; and how much more we have to do with those secret processes which underlie every...

  • 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...

  • 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

    HE SLEEPS AT NIGHT. He continues his regular activities, and all the while, the seeds are sprouting and growing. [He plants, but he cannot make it grow.]...

  • 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 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 Corinthians 15:37; 1 Corinthians 15:38; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:3;...

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

    Grow [μ η κ υ ν η τ α ι]. Lit., lengthen; be extended by the seed lengthening out into blade and stalk. He knoweth not how (wJv oujk oiden aujtov). The Greek order is very lively : how knoweth not he...

  • 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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