It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
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Gill's Exposition
And when they had sent away the multitude,.... Who had been attending him all day on the sea shore; though they seem to have been dismissed by Christ, when he went into the house, and privately…
Adam Clarke
A grain of mustard seed - See on Mat 13:31, Mat 13:32 (note).
The lessons which our Saviour designs to teach us here by parables and figurative expressions are these: -
I. That those who are good ought to consider the obligations they are under to do good; that…
Cambridge Bible
a grain of mustard seed The growth of a worldly kingdom had been already set forth under the image of a tree, and that of the kingdom of God also had been similarly compared. (See Dan 4:10-12; Eze…
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