32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and it is a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and build in the branches thereof.

33 (A)Another parable spake he to them, The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman taketh and hideth in three pecks of meal, till all be leavened.

34 (B)All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables, and without parables spake he not unto them,

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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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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:33 Or about 27 kilograms