004:024 He also said to them, "Take care what you hear.
With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you,
and that with interest.
004:025 For those who have will have more given them; and from those
who have not, even what they have will be taken away."
004:026 Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if
a man scattered seed over the ground:
004:027 he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed
sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
004:028 Of itself the land produces the crop--first the blade, then the ear;
afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.
004:029 But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers,
because the time of harvest has come."
004:030 Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom
of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?
004:031 It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth,
is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;
004:032 yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs,
and throws out great branches, so that the birds build
under its shadow."
004:033 With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them
according to their capacity for receiving it.
004:034 But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them;
while to His own disciples He expounded everything, in private.
004:035 The same day, in the evening, He said to them, "Let us cross
to the other side."
004:036 So they got away from the crowd, and took Him--as He was--
in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.
004:037 But a heavy squall came on, and the waves were now dashing
into the boat, so that it was fast filling.
004:038 But He Himself was in the stern asleep, with His head on the cushion:
so they woke Him. "Rabbi," they cried, "is it nothing to you
that we are drowning?"
004:039 So He roused Himself and rebuked the wind, and said to
the waves, "Silence! Be still!" The wind sank, and a perfect
calm set in.