bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand? 004:022 Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light. 004:023 Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!" 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