Mark 4:5

4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ¹  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ² 

Mark 4:8

4:8 But ³  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

Mark 4:27

4:27 He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

Mark 4:31

4:31 It is like a mustard seed ⁴  that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

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¹ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

² tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.

⁴ sn Mustard seeds are known for their tiny size.