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Mark 4:25-27
New Catholic Bible
Mark 4:25-27
New Catholic Bible
25 To the one who has, more will be given; from the one who does not have, even what little he has will be taken away.”[a]
26 The Parable of the Secretly Growing Seed.[b] He went on to say, “The kingdom of God is like this. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, while he sleeps and while he is awake, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not understand how.
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- Mark 4:25 To the one who has, more will be given. . . : one of the meanings of this text is that those who appropriate the truth more will receive more truth in the future; however, those who do not respond to what little truth they may know already will not profit even from that amount.
- Mark 4:26 This parable, the only one peculiar to Mark, illustrates his idea of the power of the Gospel. The term harvest is an image of the judgment (see Joel 4:13; Rev 14:15).
