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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Behooved it not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! eighteen years, to be unbound of this bond in the day of sabbath?
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And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, and all the people joyed in all things, that were gloriously done of him.
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Therefore he said, To what thing is the kingdom of God like? and to what thing shall I guess it to be like?
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It is like to a corn of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden [cast into his yard]; and it waxed, and was made into a great tree, and fowls of the air rested in the branches thereof.
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And again he said, To what thing shall I guess the kingdom of God like?