³⁰ And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

¹³ What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

¹⁶ But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,

²⁴ And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

³¹ He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

³² Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

¹⁸ Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?

¹⁹ It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

²⁰ And again he said, What is the kingdom of God like?

²¹ It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.