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Then Jesus asked, "What is God's kingdom like? What can I compare it to?
Luke 13:18 Meaning and Commentary
Luke 13:18
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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Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”
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When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.
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Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?
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It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.”
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Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?