The Seed Growing Secretly

26 [Jesus] also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, [though] he knows not how. 28 All by itself the earth produces a crop—first [the] stalk, then [the] head, then grain [that] ripens within. 29 And as soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.[fn]”