The Seed Growing Secretly

vvv [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 For[fn] 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]”