Parable of the Mustard Seed

^30 (A)And He was saying, “How shall we ^[a](B)picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? ³¹ It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil, ³² yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that ^(C)the birds of the sky can nest under its shade.”