What can I testify for you? To what thing shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equal you, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your break is great like the sea! Who can heal you?

But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions,

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

And 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 till it was all leavened.