Commentaries on Gospel Events

Parables of the Mustard Seed and Leaven

A. D. 29

Judea (?)

The harmony in the Blue Letter Bible has no problem placing these passages:

Luk 13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?

Luk 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

Luk 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

Luk 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

back in AD 28 as if they were told by Jesus only once each.  This makes more sense and would give a more progressive flow to his education of his newly selected apostles.

Why would they need to hear them twice?

The fowls of the air and the Leaven seem to represent something evil in all other scriptural usage.

Strange how some commentators waltz around that fact.

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