But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
Mark 4:26-29
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And he said, 'Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,
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and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;
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for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;
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and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'