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and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn`t know how.
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The Mystery of God's Work
Commentators unanimously agree that the core message is the mystery of spiritual growth. Just as a farmer plants a seed but cannot control or fully understand how it grows, the development of faith in a person's heart is a secret and powerful work of God. We participate by sowing and nurturing, but the life-giving increase comes from God in a way we cannot fully explain.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And should sleep, and rise night and day. He should sleep at night and rise by day, for this is how the expression is to be understood. Th…
Should sleep and rise (καθευδη κα εγειρητα). Present subjunctive for continued action. So also
spring up and grow <…
19th Century
Anglican
And should sleep, and rise.—So it was in the world’s history. Men did not know the greatness of the new force that had be…
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This parable emphasizes the mysterious power of the seed to produce a crop. All the farmer can do is plant the seed on suitable ground; he cannot m…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And should sleep That is, the man that casts in the seed, who represents the ministers of the Gospel: and, as applie…
These declarations were intended to draw the disciples' attention to the word of Christ. By His instructing them in this way, they were enabled to …
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