Mark 4:27 (BSB)
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
Commentary on Mark 4:27
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Mark 4:21-34: The lessons which our Saviour designs to teach us here by parables and figurative expressions are these: - I. That those who are good ought to consider the obligations they are under to do good; that is, as in the parable before, to bring forth fruit.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Mark 4:27: But when it is sown, it groweth up,.... So the Gospel, when it was preached, it spread notwithstanding all the opposition made against it by, the Jews and Gentiles: there was no stopping it; though the Jewish sanhedrim charged the apostles to speak no more in the name of Jesus, they regarded them not; though Herod stretched forth his hands against the church, and killed...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Mark 4:27: Verse 27. 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 over the growing grain.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Mark 4:27: And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. (g) That is, when he has finished sowing should wait both day and night not doubting that the seed should spring forth, which grows both by day and night.