Mark 4:30-32

New American Standard Bible 1995

Parable of the Mustard Seed

^30 (A)And He said, “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 smaller than 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; so that ^(C)the birds of the ^[b]air can nest under its shade.”