“To what shall we compare the Kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed that ... become are something marvelous. Jesus tells us that the kingdom of God ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Our Lord Jesus Christ explains to his disciples ... You can say that the Parable of the Mustard Seed is a metaphor for the Catholic Church, which in truth started with 12 Apostles, although ...

According to Scott, 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.

[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.

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 ...