26 He also 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 forth and grow up, he knows not how. 28 For the earth brings forth fruit of herself: first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest is come.