WNT(i)
26 Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:
27 he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
28 Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.
29 But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."
30 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?