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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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Footnotes

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

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