Matthew 13

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

31 He put before them another parable, saying, "The kingdom of heaven 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 field. 32 It*Literally "which," but a new sentence is started here in the English translation is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown it is larger than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches."