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32 Of all the seeds it is the smallest, but when it has grown it is the largest of the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and find shelter in its branches.

33 He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven ([a]sour dough) which a woman took and covered over in three measures of meal or flour till all of it was leavened.(A)

34 These things [b]all taken together Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, without a parable He said nothing to them.

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  1. Matthew 13:33 John Wycliffe, The Wycliffe Bible.
  2. Matthew 13:34 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”(A)

33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like(B) yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds[a] of flour(C) until it worked all through the dough.”(D)

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.(E)

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  1. Matthew 13:33 Or about 27 kilograms