HOW IS THE NUMBER 70 RELATED TO JESUS' PARABLES? (2)

1. The Bible records Jesus Christ giving at least 70 parables during his ministry. These parables, listed in the Gospels of Matthew (37), Mark (1), Luke (21) and John (11).

a) The book of Mark

i) The growing seed (Mark 4:26-29)

@1. ²⁶ And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, ²⁷ and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. ²⁸ For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. ²⁹ But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” (NKJV)