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16 So ought not this woman, abeing a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?”  
17 And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were adone by Him.  

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

18 aThen He said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?  
19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a1 large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”  

The Parable of the Leaven

20 And again He said, “To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Luke 13:18-21

MISCELLANEOUS TEACHINGS. (Luke 13:18-30)

mustard seed . . . leaven—(See on Mark 4:30-32). The parable of "the Leaven" sets forth, perhaps, rather the inward growth of the kingdom, while "the Mustard Seed" seems to point chiefly to the outward. It being a woman's work to knead, it seems a refinement to say that "the woman" here represents the Church, as the instrument of depositing the leaven. Nor does it yield much satisfaction to understand the "three measures of meal" of that threefold division of our nature into "spirit, soul, and body," (alluded to in I Thessalonians 5:23) or of the threefold partition of the world among the three sons of Noah (Genesis 10:32), as some do. It yields more real satisfaction to see in this brief parable just the all-penetrating and assimilating quality of the Gospel, by virtue of which it will yet mould all institutions and tribes of men, and exhibit over the whole earth one "Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ." (See on Revelation 11:15).




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