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.

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 ...

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 ...

31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of ... In today's gospel, Jesus gives his disciples a parable about the reign of God. If only our Lord Jesus came in these times when the ...

“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 ...

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.

“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 ...

The story also seemed odd to the 12 apostles around him. Fortunately, Jesus explained this parable. He said the seed represents the word of God and the soil different types of people and the ...

Branch” officially opened at 115 S Main Street in Albia with a ribbon cutting ceremony with Mustard Seed employees and Albia ...

And that is just what Jesus does in this parable. He judges the fate of the seed, his Word. Some falls on the path. The path is beaten, there for the sower to make his way through the field ...