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[Our] Lord: And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure [things] new and old.” End, v. 52.

RUBRIC: Gospel according to Mark (Chapter 4, Verse 26). Second and Fourth *Jayn* [mode/tone]. [The Gospel] of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[Mode 2 / *Banj*] } And he said: “Thus is the kingdom [Mode 4 / *Danj*] } of God: as if a man should cast seed into the earth, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, and he knows not [how]. For the earth of itself brings forth fruit: first the blade, and then the ear, then the full wheat in the ear. But when the fruit yields, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come.” And he said: “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we illustrate it? [It is] like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is smaller than