4 26 And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, 4 27 and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. 4 28 The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 4 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."