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32 It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.’(A)

33 He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven[a] that a woman took and mixed into twenty kilograms[b] of flour until all of it was leavened.’(B)

Using Parables Fulfils Prophecy

34 Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables, and he did not tell them anything without a parable,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:33 Or yeast
  2. 13:33 Lit three sata; about forty litres