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  "pericope": "The Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly",
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      "text": "He said,"
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      "text": "and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.",
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      "text": "For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.",
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      "text": "But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”",
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      "text": "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;",
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      "text": "For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.",
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      "text": "But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.",
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