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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

芥菜種和麵酵的比喻（太13:31~33；可4:30~32）耶穌說：“　神的國好像甚麼呢？我要把它比作甚麼呢？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 说 ： 神 的 国 好 像 甚 麽 ？ 我 拿 甚 麽 来 比 较 呢 ？

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then Jesus said, "What is God's kingdom like? What can I compare it with? ¹⁹ It is like a mustard seed that a man plants in his garden. The seed grows and becomes a tree, and the wild birds build nests in its branches." ²⁰ Jesus said again, "What can I compare God's kingdom with? ²¹ It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in a large tub of flour until it made all the dough rise." ²² Jesus was teaching in every town and village as he traveled toward Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Unto: Luke 13:20, Luke 7:31, Lamentations 2:13, Matthew 13:31

the kingdom: Luke 17:21, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:30-34

Reciprocal: Matthew 11:16 - whereunto Matthew 13:24 - The kingdom Mark 4:31 - like

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord . He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.

Genesis 13:4
and where he had built an altar. So he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 13:7
so Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen began to argue. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at this time.

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, because we are brothers.

Genesis 14:13
One of the men who was not captured went to Abram, the Hebrew, and told him what had happened. At that time Abram was camped near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite. Mamre was a brother of Eshcol and Aner, and they had all made an agreement to help Abram.

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre. Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day.

Genesis 23:2
She died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried because of her.

Genesis 35:27
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Genesis 37:14
His father said, "Go and see if your brothers and the flocks are all right. Then come back and tell me." So Joseph's father sent him from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph came to Shechem,

Numbers 13:22
They went through the southern area to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak lived. (The city of Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said he, unto what is the kingdom of God like?.... The same with the kingdom of heaven, in Matthew 13:31 and so the Ethiopic version reads it here, "and whereunto shall I resemble it?" of this way of speaking, Matthew 13:31- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See these parables explained in the notes at Matthew 13:31-32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. - 19. The kingdom - is like a grain of mustard seed — Matthew 13:31.