Study Desk

And He was saying, "How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it?

And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

"It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY can NEST UNDER its shade."

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.