31It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground.


In Context

28 All by itself the soil produces grain-- first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.

29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."

30 Again he said, "What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?

31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground.

32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade."

33 With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.

Mark 4:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:31[It is] like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:31It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:31As to a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:31It is like a grain of mustard-seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:31It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:31As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: