Mark:4:30-34

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* Another saying of His was this : »How are we to picture the Kingdom of God ? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it ? * It is like a mustard-seed , which , when sown in the earth , is the smallest of all the seeds in the world ; * yet when sown it springs up and becomes larger than all the herbs , and throws out great branches , so that the birds build under its shadow .« * With many such parables He used to speak the Message to them according to their capacity for receiving it . * But except in figurative language He spoke nothing to them ; while to His own disciples He expounded everything , in private .

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