He set another
parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven
is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
which indeed is smaller
than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and
becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its
branches." He spoke another
parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like
yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of
meal, until it was all leavened." Jesus spoke all these
things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't
speak to them, that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,