32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

33 He told them another parable. (A)“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in (B)three measures of flour, till it was (C)all leavened.”

Prophecy and Parables

34 (D)All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.

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