Mark 4:29
Good News Translation
When the grain is ripe, the man starts cutting it with his sickle, because harvest time has come.

New Revised Standard Version
But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.”

Contemporary English Version
Then when harvest season comes and the grain is ripe, the farmer cuts it with a sickle.

New American Bible
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

brought forth.

Job 5:26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

2 Timothy 4:7,8 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. . . .

he putteth.

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

Joel 3:13 Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.

Matthew 13:30,40-43 Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. . . .

Revelation 14:13-17 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them. . . .

Context
The Seed Growing Secretly
28For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear. 29And when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. 30And he said: To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? or to what parable shall we compare it?…
Cross References
Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.

Mark 4:28
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.

Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat upon the cloud: Thrust in thy sickle and reap, because the hour is come to reap. For the harvest of the earth is ripe.

Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire. And he cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying: Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vineyard of the earth, because the grapes thereof are ripe.

Mark 4:28
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