Parables of the Mustard Seed and Leaven.
Share
This resource is exclusive for PLUS Members
Upgrade now and receive:
- Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy uninterrupted access.
- Exclusive Commentaries: Dive deeper with in-depth insights.
- Advanced Study Tools: Powerful search and comparison features.
- Premium Guides & Articles: Unlock for a more comprehensive study.
33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened. [In Oriental housekeeping, yeast is not preserved in a separate form. A piece of leavened dough saved over from the last baking is added to the new dough to ferment it. Three measures contained the quantity usually taken for one baking. Leaven represents the quickness, quietness, thoroughness, and sureness with which gospel truth diffuses itself through human society. A woman is named because baking was part of her household duty.]
34 All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes;
b 33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it
[that is, as they had leisure or opportunity to listen];b 33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it
34 and without a parable spake he not {a nothing} unto them [that is, he used nothing but parables on that occasion, for both before and after this he taught without parables]:
35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet [at Psalms 78:2 which is usually attributed to Asaph, who is called a seer ( 2 Chronicles 29:30 ). His teaching typified that of Christ], saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. [Jesus fulfilled this prophecy in a notable manner, being the only teacher in history distinguished in any marked degree by the use of parables.] b but