Lucas 13

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

18 Therefore he said, "What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? 19 It is like a mustard seed that a man took and**Here "and" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."