Parable of the Mustard Seed

It's quite easy to move from there to the parable of the mustard seed.

"Does it start with Jesus' parable of the mustard seed?"

This is the parable of the mustard seed."

It also includes some of the parables (such as the parable of the mustard seed).

He tells the Parable of the Mustard Seed.

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast can be seen as being in the process of fulfilment.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed is one of the parables of Jesus.

It contains the Parable of the Sower, with its explanation, and the parable of The Mustard Seed.

It follows the parable of the Sower and the lamp under a bushel, and precedes the parable of the Mustard Seed.

In both places it immediately follows the Parable of the Mustard Seed, which shares this parable's theme of the Kingdom of Heaven growing from small beginnings.

These parables follow the Parable of the Lost Sheep and the Parable of the Mustard Seed respectively, and share the same messages as their more male-oriented counterparts.

There is then the parable of the Growing Seed and the Parable of the Mustard Seed, each showing analogies with nature and small beginnings yielding much more in the end.

John Kessler writing in the International Review of Missions in qualified support of Dr McGavran comments, 'The parables of the mustard seed and of the leaven (Matt.

Parable of the Mustard Seed and Parable of the Growing Seed explain the Kingdom of God where growth is due to God, not man, and follows its own timetable.

This parable is part of a pair, and shares the meaning of the preceding Parable of the Mustard Seed, namely the powerful growth of the Kingdom of God from small beginnings.

The parable of the Leaven follows the parable of the Mustard Seed in Matthew and Luke, and shares the theme of the Kingdom of Heaven growing from small beginnings.

Natural growth, like Jesus' parables of The Mustard Seed and Seed Growing Secretly in Mark 4, was probably a naturally understood metaphor for Mark's audience as the ancient world was largely an agricultural world.

In the New Testament, the mustard seed is used by Jesus in the parable of the Mustard Seed as a model for the kingdom of God which initially starts small but grows to be the biggest of all garden plants.

The scholars of the Seminar noted parallels with the parable of the leaven, which immediately precedes the parable of the empty jar in the Gospel of Thomas and the parable of the mustard seed: in all three the kingdom starts with something "unnoticed or unexpected or modest".