Then said he, unto what is the kingdom of God like? &c.] The same with the kingdom of heaven, in ( Matthew 13:31 ) and so the Ethiopic version reads it here, "and whereunto shall I resemble it?" of this way of speaking, (See Gill on Mark 4:30).
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And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?
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And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
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Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I resemble it?
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It is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden, and it grew, and became a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
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And again he said, To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?