301And He said, "How shall we 2picture the kingdom of God, or by whatparable shall we present it?
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"It is like a mustardseed, which, whensown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,
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yetwhen it is sown, it grows up and becomeslarger than all the gardenplants and formslargebranches; so that 3THE BIRDS OF THE AIRcanNESTUNDER ITS SHADE."
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With manysuchparables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;
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and He did not speak to them 4without a parable; but He was 5explainingeverythingprivately* to His owndisciples.