MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For the cup of your destruction is enlarged- who shall heal you?

But to what shall I compare this generation? It is similar to children who sit in the marketplaces and call to their playmates,

Then He said, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?

Again He said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until it was all leavened."