Matthew 13:32-34

Young's Literal Translation

³² which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'

³³ Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,