He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?
What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can heal you?
“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,
He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field,
It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,