When his followers asked Jesus to increase their faith, he told them the parable of the mustard seed. Though it was the smallest of seeds, once sown the mustard plant sprang up and spread rapidly.

Today’s selection from Matthew 13 continues Jesus’ Parables Discourse. It contains two short parables—about a mustard seed and yeast—and a long parable with an allegorical interpretation ...

[For example], Jesus tells a parable about somebody who takes a mustard seed, plants it in the ground, and it grows up to be a great tree, or a bush at least, a weed, though, in plain language.

Let us continue today to meditate on the parables of Jesus, which help us to regain hope ... the wheat and the weeds, the ...

In the second parable, the reign of God seems to be nothing but an insignificant mustard seed, and yet it is to grow and turn out to be the largest of bushes. And, as with any seed, in a way the large ...

These include, “The Good Samaritan,” “The Mustard Seed,” “The Pharisee ... Simply put, “[W]e do not know if Jesus himself told this or any other parable.” So what we have are what ...

The Sower (Mark 4:3-9 or with Jesus’ explanation 4:3-20): I love the agricultural parables and even if ... and 2.) 8. The Mustard Seed (Mark 4:30-32): The Kingdom of God is like a mustard ...

Jesus’ parables reflect this interiority. The humble mustard seed will germinate and take root to give shelter for the birds; the yeast the woman “hides” in the flour will rise mysteriously ...

[For example], Jesus tells a parable about somebody who takes a mustard seed, plants it in the ground, and it grows up to be a great tree, or a bush at least, a weed, though, in plain language.