He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,