Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Mark 4:27
and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Verse 27. _AND SHOULD SLEEP AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY_] That is, he should _sleep_ by _night_, and _rise_ by _day_; for so the words are obviously to be understood. _HE KNOWETH NOT HOW._] How a plant gr...
AND SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY - Should sleep in the night and rise by day, for so the expression is to be understood. That is, should live in his usual way, without exerting any influence o...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Teaching by the Seaside. The Parable of the Sower. (Mark 4:1. Matthew 13:1; Luke 8:4 .)_ 2. The Word to shine forth in testimony. (Mar
The teaching in parables to the multitude is now resumed, and two further examples are given, those of the seed growing secretly and the mustard seed. The first is peculiar to Mk. Loisy interprets it...
He said to them: "This is what the Kingdom of God is like. It is like what happens when a man casts seed upon the earth. He sleeps and he wakes night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows--and he do...
TEACHING IN PARABLES (Mark 4:1-2)...
SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE. These Present Tenses, following the Past in Mark 4:26, indicate the continued rising and sleeping after the seed was sown. SPRING. sprout. GROW UP. lengthen. KNOWETH. has no...
_spring and grow up_ We need not inquire too minutely who the Sower is, though primarily it refers to the Lord Himself. It is the property of the seed which is intended to engage our attention, the se...
The Seed growing secretly 26. _as if a man should cast seed into the ground_ This is _the only parable which is peculiar to St Mark_, and seems to take the place of "the Leaven" recorded by St Matthe...
ΒΛΑΣΤΑ͂Ι ([787][788][789][790][791][792]) rather than βλαστάνῃ ([793][794][795]2) or βλαστάνει ([796][797][798] 33). ΜΗΚΎΝΕΤΑΙ ([799][800][801][802]) rather than μηκύνηται ([803][804][805]2 etc.). [78...
26–29. THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY AND AUTOMATICALLY Omitted by Mt. and Lk...
_JESUS SPOKE ABOUT CANDLES AND SEED MARK 4:21-34:_ Often we act much more foolish in our spiritual lives than we would ever consider doing in our physical lives. Men would never light a candle to prod...
ΚΑΘΕΎΔΗ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΚΑΘΕΎΔΩ (G2518) спать, ΈΓΕΊΡΗΤΑΙ _praes. conj. pass. от_ ΕΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453), _pass._ подниматься, пробуждаться. Об использовании _conj. см._ Mark 4:26. ΝΎΚΤΑ _асс. sing. о...
DISCOURSE: 1423 THE SPRINGING FIELD Mark 4:26. And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring...
SO IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD,— In this parable we are informed, that as the husbandman does not, by any efficacy of his own, cause the seed to grow, but leaves it to be nourished by the soil and sun; so J...
_SUMMARY 4:1-34_ In the parables of this section, especially in those of the sower, the seed and the mustard seed, the prophetic power of Jesus is clearly exhibited. Without superhuman foresight he co...
E. THE PARABLE OF SECRET GROWTH. 4:26-29 _TEXT 4:26-29_ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed shou...
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. AND SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY - go about his other ordinary occupations, leaving it...
10-13 Compare Mat_13:10-17; Luk_8:9-10. 11 The kingdom of God had been foretold and typified in their sacred Scriptures, but now the Lord is unfolding a phase of its history which was unknown to the...
PARABLE OF THE SOWER. STILLING THE TEMPEST 1-9. Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1; Luke 8:4). See on Mt....
THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY (the only parable peculiar to Mk). Tatian in his 'Diates-saron' places it immediately before the Tares. Such a position for it is suitable, but it is wrong to regard it, with...
SLEEP, AND RISE] i.e. ministers of the gospel having preached the word are to pursue their ordinary employments without undue anxiety. Visible results may be slow, but the seed is sure to germinate, b...
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 4 THE STORY ABOUT THE SEEDS VERSES 1-9 Every farmer knows that he must plant his s...
AND SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE. — So it was in the world’s history. Men knew not the greatness of the new force that had been brought into action. Philosophers and statesmen ignored it. Even the very prea...
CHAPTER 4:26-29 (MARK 4:26) THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY "And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should...
καθεύδῃ … ἡμέραν, sleep and rise night and day, suggestive of the monotonous life of a man who has nothing particular to do beyond waiting patiently for the result of what he has already done (seed so...
_Parable of the Blade, the Ear, and the Full Corn_. Peculiar to Mark and beyond doubt a genuine utterance of Jesus, the doctrine taught being over the head of the reporter and the Apostolic Church gen...
GROWTH IN GOD'S KINGDOM Mark 4:10-41 How quick the Master was to observe the meaning of natural symbols! To Him all things were unfoldings of eternal mystery, and the ways of men unconsciously mirror...
In verses Mark 4:1; Mark 4:10, we have the explanation of the reason of the parabolic teaching of Jesus. He clothed divine truth in picture forms that men might more easily look upon it and learn it,...
And (g) should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he (h) knoweth not how. (g) That is, when he has finished sowing should wait both day and night not doubting that...
THE PROGRESSIVE GRACE IN THE HEART Mark 4:26-34. “And He said, Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man may cast seed upon the ground, and he may sleep, and it springs up, night and day, and the seed ge...
(26) And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground: (27) And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. (28...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
_NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD_ ‘And (Jesus) said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; … when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle...
This introduces the true character and result of His own service, and all the history of the service that should be accomplished unto a far distant future; as well as the responsibility of His discipl...
AND SHOULD SLEEP,.... That is, the man that casts in the seed, who represents the ministers of the Gospel: and, as applied to them, is not to be understood of natural sleep, and indulging themselves i...
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. Ver. 27. _And should sleep_] Ministers must rest secure with the success of their endeavours, hav...
Mark 4:26, 27, 28. "And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth no...
SHOULD SLEEP, AND RISE NIGHT AND DAY; should sleep by night and rise by day. The seed does not come suddenly to maturity, but by a gradual process, while he who sowed it pursues his ordinary course of...
His teaching now at the seaside corresponds to Matthew 13:1, but only two of the seven parables in Matthew are mentioned here, for Matthew gives a full dispensational picture, while Mark dwells simply...
TITLE: How does your garden grow? TEXT: Mark 4:26-30 PROPOSITION: We are involved but can't explain the process of growth. QUESTION: How? KEY WORD: Evidences SCRIPTURE READING: Same INTRODUCTION: 1....
21-34 These declarations were intended to call the attention of the disciples to the word of Christ. By his thus instructing them, they were made able to instruct others; as candles are lighted, not...
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Mark 4:27 and G2532 sleep G2518 (G5725) night G3571 and G2532 rise G1453 (G5747) day G2250...
THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD WILL NOW BE SPREAD WIDELY AND WILL PRODUCE ABUNDANT FRUIT (4:1-34). As we have already seen the Gospel began with Jesus Christ as God's beloved Son and has gradua...
THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY UNTIL THE HARVEST (4:26-29). Jesus now illustrates the certainty of the harvest which will come about through God's secret work in the world. Man casts the seed on the earth,...
TWO PARABLES EMPHASISING NEW BIRTH AND GROWTH (4:26-32). Jesus follow up the parable of the sower with two parables about new birth and growth. In these the seed of the word is sown, and it produces n...
Mark 4:26-29. THE PARABLE OF THE SEED GROWING, WE KNOW NOT HOW. Found here only....
ON PARABLES, see the note on Matthew 13:1-52. In his report of the discourse in parables, Mark gives but three, one of them not mentioned elsewhere. Each independently chose these out of the many utte...
Mark 4:27. AND SHOULD SLEEP, etc., _i.e.,_ live as usual without further care of the seed sown. HE KNOWETH NOT HOW. The emphasis rests on the word ‘he; ‘he who sows does not know how that takes plac...
SHOULD SLEEP AND RISE (καθευδη κα εγειρητα). Present subjunctive for continued action. So alsoSPRING UP AND GROW (βλαστα κα μηκυνητα) two late verbs. The process of growth goes on all night and a...
Mark 4:26 Mysterious growth. We little think how much is always going on in what we may call the underground of life; and how much more we have to do with those secret processes which underlie every...
Mark 4:26 We have in this parable: I. A most simple, yet striking representation of the business, and, at the same time, the helplessness of the spiritual husbandman. To the ministers of the Gospel,...
Mark 4:26 Christ's Idea of Christianity. I. The kingdom of God, or the beginning of a truly religious life in the soul of a man, may be obscure, imperceptible and unconscious. When a man is building...
CONTENTS: Parable of the sower. Parable of the candle. Parable of the mustard seed. Jesus stills the storm. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Satan, disciples. CONCLUSION: The present age is a time for missions an...
Mark 4:12. _That seeing they may see, and not perceive._ St. Luke gives the true sense of these words, which often occur. Acts 28:26. They mark, according to Dr. Lightfoot, the obduracy which fell on...
HE SLEEPS AT NIGHT. He continues his regular activities, and all the while, the seeds are sprouting and growing. [He plants, but he cannot make it grow.]...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 4:26 The people of Jesus’ day expected God’s kingdom to come suddenly, but Jesus tells them it will begin in a small way (FIRST THE BLADE, THEN THE EAR) and then will grow slowly but...
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 4:1 Mark provides several examples of Jesus teaching in parables. To the hard-hearted, parables are a warning; to those who are open-hearted, they illustrate principles of the messia...
CHAPTER 4 1 _The parable of the sower_, 14 _and the meaning thereof_. 21 _We must communicate the light of our knowledge to others_. 26 _The parable of the seed growing secretly_, 30 _and of the musta...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 4:29. BUT AS SOON AS THE FRUIT IS MATURE, STRAIGHTWAY HE PUTTETH FORTH THE SICKLE, etc. Cp. Joel 4:13 (LXX.). See also 1 Peter 1:23; Revelation 14:14. MAIN HOMILE...
EXPOSITION MARK 4:1 AND AGAIN HE BEGAN TO TEACH BY THE SEASIDE. This return to the seaside is mentioned by St. Mark only. From this time our Lord's teaching began to be more public. The room and the...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the gospel according to Mark, chapter 4. Beginning in chapter 4, we have the beginning of the ministry of Christ in parables. There is often times a mistaken opinion...
1 Corinthians 15:37; 1 Corinthians 15:38; 2 Peter 3:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:3;...
Grow [μ η κ υ ν η τ α ι]. Lit., lengthen; be extended by the seed lengthening out into blade and stalk. He knoweth not how (wJv oujk oiden aujtov). The Greek order is very lively : how knoweth not he...
GETTING WHAT YOU GIVE Mark 4:24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are many "as" and "sos" in the "Word of God. These cover various lines of consideration. Let us suggest one or two of these before we take u...