And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth?
Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:
What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the marketplaces, who call unto their fellows
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,