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

"Therefore to what shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?

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?

Another parable He set before them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,

neither will they say, 'Look here!' or 'Look, there [it is]!' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you."

And He said, "Thus is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast the seed on the ground,

Then He said, "To what shall we compare the kingdom of God? Or by what sort of parable shall we illustrate it?

but whenever it is sown, it comes up and becomes greater than all the garden vegetables, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to nest under its shade."

And apart from a parable He did not speak to them, however, privately to His disciples, he would explain all things.