And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.

By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.

And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”

But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

And other [seed] fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.

And other [seed] fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore [a crop]--one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred [times as much].

Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:

however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.