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Parable 3 · to the crowds

The Mustard Seed

Mattityahu 13:31–32
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What Yeshua is saying

The Kingdom is like the smallest of seeds, which becomes the largest of garden plants — birds nest in its branches.

The explanation

Yeshua frames His Kingdom as starting indecently small — twelve fishermen, a carpenter, a borrowed tomb. What appears insignificant to the powers of the age becomes the shelter for every nation. Do not despise the seed because the field is small.

Echoes from the Tanakh
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