Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
How shall we liken? (Pwv omoiwswmen) Deliberative first aorist subjunctive. This question alone in Mark. So with the other question:
In what parable shall we set it forth? (en tini authn parabolh qwmen). Deliberative second aorist subjunctive. The graphic question draws the interest of the hearers (we) by fine tact. Luke 13:18 f. retains the double question which Matthew 13:31 f. does not have, though he has it in a very different context, probably an illustration of Christ's favourite sayings often repeated to different audiences as is true of all teachers and preachers.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 4:30:
Luke 13:19
Acts 20:15
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