8/19/2023 0 Comments Mustard tree bible![]() ![]() If the parable of the seed sown and growing steadily produces a harvest, the mustard seed produces a very large plant, and the small amount of yeast digests and works its way through all of the flour, then, surely, all three parables are parables of growth. ‘As small as a grain of mustard’, was almost certainly a proverbial saying. ![]() Matthew and Mark note that Jesus drew attention to the smallness of the mustard seed. In Mark’s gospel the parable follows that of the seed growing quietly without any attention from the man who sowed it. Matthew and Luke set the parable with the parable of the woman hiding a small amount of leaven (dough containing live yeast) in a large amount of flour to cause all of it to rise. Matthew describes the seed being planted in a field, Mark in the ground and Luke in a garden – the different places accurately reflecting the original Greek. The parable of the mustard seed is found in each of the first three gospels. He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. ![]() But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”Īnd he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows he knows not how. Mark Chapter 4 verses 26-34, English Standard VersionĪnd he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.” It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. Matthew Chapter 13 verses 31-33, English Standard Version He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.” And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” Luke Chapter 13 verses 18-21, English Standard Version (There are further podcasts set lower in the text.) ![]()
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