Is like unto leaven (ομοια εστιν ζυμη). In its pervasive power. Curiously enough some people deny that Jesus here likens the expan…

The kingdom of heaven. This means the same as in the last parable, perhaps, however, intending to denote more precisely the secret and hid…

The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven. This parable describes the influence of Christ's Church on the world, but in a different way th…

But when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.…

St. John Chrysostom: The Lord sets forth the same thing in this parable of the leaven, as if to say to His disciples, “Just as…

The general thrust of this parable is the same as that of the mustard seed. The kingdom produces ultimate consequences out of all proportion to its…

Another parable spoke he to them
To the disciples and the multitude, and which was of the same kind, to the same pur…

The purpose of the parable of the seed sown is to show that the beginnings of the gospel would be small, but its eventual outcome would be a great …

Previously, the Lord showed the obstacles to the Gospel's teaching through two parables. However, because someone might say: ‘If the teaching is hi…