The Growth of the Kingdom

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 up and grow, he knoweth not how.

28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself: first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."