The Parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Leaven

31 He(A) presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven(B) is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”(C)

33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven[a] that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds[b] of flour until all of it was leavened.”(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:33 Or yeast
  2. 13:33 Lit three sata; about forty liters

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

31 He put before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and[a] sowed in his field. 32 It[b] is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown it is larger than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

The Parable of the Yeast

33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and[c] put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:31 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 13:32 Literally “which,” but a new sentence is started here in the English translation
  3. Matthew 13:33 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb