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 new life and steady growth as God's rain falls on it (Isaiah 55:10 where it is literally ‘bring to birth and sprout/grow'). The first parable emphasises the secrecy but certainty of the result because it is God Who is at work, and the second parable the rapidly expanding nature of the outstanding result that will be achieved.

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