32 It[a] 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[b] put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”

Parables Fulfill Prophecy

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,

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Footnotes

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