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He also said to them, "Pay attention to what you are hearing! The measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you -- and more besides!
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For anyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away."
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And he said, "The Kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
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Nights he sleeps, days he's awake; and meanwhile the seeds sprout and grow -- how, he doesn't know.
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By itself the soil produces a crop -- first the stalk, then the head, and finally the full grain in the head.
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But as soon as the crop is ready, the man comes with his sickle, because it's harvest-time."
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Yeshua also said, "With what can we compare the Kingdom of God? What illustration should we use to describe it?
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It is like a mustard seed, which, when planted, is the smallest of all the seeds in the field;
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but after it has been planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all the plants, with such big branches that the birds flying about can build nests in its shade."
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With many parables like these he spoke the message to them, to the extent that they were capable of hearing it.
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He did not say a thing to them without using a parable; when he was alone with his own talmidim he explained everything to them.