¹⁸ He said therefore, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I liken it?

²⁰ And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

¹³ What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

²⁴ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:

³¹ Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

³² which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.

²⁶ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth;

³⁰ And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth?

³¹ It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,

³² yet when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof.

³³ And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;

³⁴ and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

³¹ Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

²¹ neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.