The Parable of the Mustard Seed

(Mark 4:30–34; Luke 13:18–19)

31 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took [and] planted in his field. 32 Although it is [the] smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”