In this week's edition of "There's more in the Gospel than meets the eye" Jill Bevilacqua
and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Eleventh Sunday
of the Year. Listen:
GospelMk
4:26-34
Jesus said to the crowds: "This is how it is with the kingdom
of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and
rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows
not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the
ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the
sickle at once, for the harvest has come."
He said, "To what shall we
compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a
mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds
on the earth. But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and
puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade." With
many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it. Without
parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything
in private.