²⁶And he said, ‘Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth, ²⁷and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how; ²⁸for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear; ²⁹and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.’ ³⁰And he said, ‘To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it? ³¹As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth; ³²and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.’ ³³And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear, ³⁴and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

³⁵And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, ‘We may pass over to the other side;’ ³⁶and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him. ³⁷And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled, ³⁸and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, ‘Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?’ ³⁹And having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be stilled;’ and the wind did lull, and there was a great calm: ⁴⁰and he said to them, ‘Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?’ ⁴¹and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, ‘Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?’

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