Discovery BoxMark 4:5 
Context4:5 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
Context4:8 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
Context4:27 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
Context4:31 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 –
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.
