^{33 Ref} Another simile spake he to them: `The reign of the heavens is like to leaven, which a woman having taken, hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.'

^{34 Ref} All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

^{35 Ref} that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'