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He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
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The Kingdom's Hidden Power
Commentators agree this parable illustrates the kingdom's pervasive and transformative nature. Like leaven in dough, the Gospel works silently, secretly, and gradually from within. It starts small but inevitably permeates and changes the entire person, community, or even the world, demonstrating a powerful, internal transformation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The kingdom of heaven. This means the same as in the last parable, perhaps, however, intending to denote more precisely the secret and hid…
Is like unto leaven (ομοια εστιν ζυμη). In its pervasive power. Curiously enough some people deny that Jesus here likens the expan…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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Baptist
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.…
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Another parable spoke he to them To the disciples and the multitude, and which was of the same kind, to the same pur…
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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 …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Lord showed the obstacles to the Gospel's teaching through two parables. However, because someone might say: ‘If the teaching is hi…
