Parallel Verses English Standard Version yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” King James Bible But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. American Standard Version yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof. Douay-Rheims Bible And when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches, so that the birds of the air may dwell under the shadow thereof. English Revised Version yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof. Webster's Bible Translation But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under its shade. Weymouth New Testament yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow." Mark 4:32 Parallel Commentary Vincent's Word StudiesGroweth up Mark only. Herbs (τῶν λαχάνων) Rev., rightly, the herbs; those which people are wont to plant in their gardens. The word denotes garden - or pot-herbs, as distinguished from wild herbs. Shooteth out great branches (ποιεῖ κλάδους μεγάλους) Lit., maketh, etc. Rev., putteth out. Peculiar to Mark. Matthew has becometh a tree. On branches, see note on Matthew 24:32. One of the Talmudists describes the mustard-plant as a tree, of which the wood was sufficient to cover a potter's shed. Another says that he was wont to climb into it as men climb into a fig-tree. Professor Hackett says that on the plain of Akka, toward Carmel, he found a collection of mustard-plants from six to nine feet high, with branches from each side of a trunk an inch or more in thickness. Dr. Thomson relates that near the bank of the Jordan he found a mustard-tree more than twelve feet high. Lodge (κατασκηνοῦν) See on Matthew 8:20. Lit., pitch their tents. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and becometh. shooteth. lodge. Cross References Psalm 104:12 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches. Ezekiel 17:23 On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. Ezekiel 31:6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations. Daniel 4:12 Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. Matthew 13:32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." Mark 4:31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, Mark 4:33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. Jump to Previous Able Air Big Birds Branches Build Forms Forth Fowls Garden Great Greater Greatest Groweth Grows Heaven Herbs Largest Lodge Mounts Nest Nests Perch Planted Plants Produces Puts Putteth Rest Shade Shadow Shooteth Sky Sown Springs Taller Thereof ThrowsJump to Next Able Air Big Birds Branches Build Forms Forth Fowls Garden Great Greater Greatest Groweth Grows Heaven Herbs Largest Lodge Mounts Nest Nests Perch Planted Plants Produces Puts Putteth Rest Shade Shadow Shooteth Sky Sown Springs Taller Thereof ThrowsLinks Mark 4:32 NIVMark 4:32 NLT Mark 4:32 ESV Mark 4:32 NASB Mark 4:32 KJV Mark 4:32 Bible Apps Mark 4:32 Biblia Paralela Mark 4:32 Chinese Bible Mark 4:32 French Bible Mark 4:32 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |
    |