Matthew 13:33-35

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Parable of the Yeast

³³He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with^[a] three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

The Use of Parables

³⁴Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing. ³⁵This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet:^[b]

“I will open my mouth to speak in parables;
I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”^[c]

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Footnotes

Matthew 13:33 Gk hid in
Matthew 13:35 Other ancient authorities read the prophet Isaiah
Matthew 13:35 Other ancient authorities lack of the world

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