²⁵“For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.”

Parable of the Seed

²⁶And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;²⁷and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.²⁸“The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.²⁹“But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Parable of the Mustard Seed

³⁰And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?³¹“It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,³²yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that THE BIRDS OF THEAIR can NEST UNDER ITS SHADE.”

³³With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;³⁴and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

Jesus Stills the Sea

³⁵On that day, when evening came, He *said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.”³⁶Leaving the crowd, they *took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was; and other boats were with Him.³⁷And there *arose a fierce gale of wind, and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up.³⁸Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”³⁹And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.⁴⁰And He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”⁴¹They became very much afraid and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”