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Luke 13:20

Luke 13:20
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

It is like leaven,.... Which is small in quantity, but is of a swelling, spreading quality; and fitly expresses the small beginnings of the Gospel ministry, and its increase, also the state and case…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 13:18-22

Here is, I. The gospel's progress foretold in two parables, which we had before, Mat 13:31-33. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God, for it advances his glory; this kingdom was yet a…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Luke 13:1-35

Luk 9:51 to Luk 18:31. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance.

This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical…