Matthew 13:31

“For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world, the Fashioner of humanity, the Sower of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations?” — editor's note: Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27 (in LXX. it is xxxviii. 27); Hos. ii. 23; Zech. x. 9; Matt. xiii. 31–43.

“Hence we give thanks the more to that grain of mustard seed (Matth. xiii. 31, 32), for that from what appeared a small and despicable seed it has been so spread abroad everywhere by branches rising and extending themselves from the same root that all the birds of heaven may make their nests in them.” — the author cites it

“…the herb from a grain of mustard seed hath spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, hath leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the…” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31, 33; Luke xiii. 19, 21.

“And He spake many things unto them in parables, saying;” and so on, down to the words, “Therefore every scribe which is instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.”” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 1–52.

““Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.”” — editor's note: [Matt. xiii. 31. [R.V., “set he before them,” etc.]

“The conditions of the nascent church required this to be so that the grain of mustard seed might grow up little by little into a tree, and that the leaven of the gospel might gradually raise more and more the whole lump of the church.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31.

“We have learned how a camel can pass through a needle’s eye, how an animal with a hump on its back, when it has laid down its packs, can take to itself the wings of a dove and rest in the branches of the tree which has grown from a grain of mustard seed.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31, 32.

“…of thought concerning the greatest of things, you must also to be consistent despise the Kingdom of Heaven, because it is compared to a grain of mustard seed; and you must exalt the adversary above the Majesty of Jesus, because he is called a great Mountain, and Leviathan and King of that which lives in the water,…” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31.

“Wherefore He Himself, declaring Himself very beautifully, likened Himself to a grain of mustard-seed; and pointed out the spirituality of the word that is sown, and the productiveness of its nature, and the magnificence and conspicuousness of the power of the…” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31; Luke xiii. 19.

“Matt. xiii. 31.” — the author cites it

“This, he says, is the kingdom of heaven, the grain of mustard seed, the point which is indivisible in the body; and, he says, no one knows this (point) save the spiritual only.” — editor's note: Matt. xiii. 31, 32; Mark iv. 31, 32; Luke xiii. 19.

Matthew 13:31 and Luke 13:19 share the same wording (12 words).

Cited together in The Instructor I.11.

Cited together in The Instructor I.11.

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Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.

Cited together in The Instructor I.11.

Cited together in The Instructor I.11.

Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.

Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.

Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.

Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.

Cited together in The Instructor I.11.

Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII V.22.