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

^{31 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;

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