Matthew 13:31-32

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The Mustard Seed

³¹He gave them another parable [to consider], saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;^(A) ³²and of all the seeds [planted in the region] it is the smallest, but when it has grown it is the largest of the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air find shelter in its branches.”^(B)

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Luke 13:18-19

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Parables of Mustard Seed and Leaven

¹⁸So this led Him to say, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?^(A) ¹⁹It is like a ^[a]mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky found shelter and nested in its branches.”^(B)

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Footnotes

Luke 13:19 In ancient Israel the mustard seed was the smallest known seed, and in rabbinic teaching the mustard seed was used as an example of something very small (in the Talmud).