yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs, and throws out great branches, so that the birds build under its shadow.«
It is the smallest of all seeds, and yet when full-grown it is larger than any herb and forms a tree, so that the birds come and build in its branches.«
It is like a mustard-seed, which, when sown in the earth, is the smallest of all the seeds in the world;
With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it.