Bearing out what Jesus said, here is a bird perching on a mustard plant that has grown to a great size from a tiny seed, symbolizing the value of faith. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus told the Parables of ...

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 ...

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.

[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.

“What comparison can we use for the reign of God?” asks Jesus. And his answer is: a mustard seed. Mustard is the exact opposite of a cedar. In Jesus’ time it was commonly considered to be a wee ...

Another parable is about enemies who come to sow weed seeds in ... Wrestling with purple loosestrife this past week, I found myself reflecting on the growth of the mustard seed, and Jesus’ mention of ...

Take, for instance, the image of a mustard seed. Most Christians are familiar with the parable that Jesus told about the mustard seed. The Gospel of Matthew recounts how Jesus healed a young man ...

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 ...

many of the images and stories in Jesus’ parables were quite subversive. On the surface the parable of the mustard seed is an image of great growth coming from something small. The parable of ...

[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.