Sentences with phrase «as a mustard seed grows»
What starts as a mustard seed grows into a tree in which the birds of the air can nest.
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And as Jesus told them, his seed, people believing him then, the 12 apostles, that would grow like a mustard seed in to a huge tree... which it did, 33 % of the 7 billion people on the planet believe Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, performed miracles using the Holy Spirit, and later sent the Holy Spirit to the followers after dying on the cross and raising again on the 3rd day of being in the hands of sinful men.
The parable of the mustard seed in verses 30 - 32 has two points: (1) just as the tiny mustard seed can grow (in the Mediterranean area) into a fairly tall tree, so the humble start of the kingdom of God does not preclude a victorious ending; (2) the kingdom is now present, and all nations and peoples («birds of the air» was a phrase used by the rabbis to mean all people, including Gentiles) may now partake of it.
Some of the parables are introduced with words such as, «The Kingdom of God is like...» as in the case of the Seed Growing on its Own, the Mustard Seed, and the Leaven, 2 while others have used the idea without explicit use of the term.
The parable of the earth bearing fruit of itself, or as is sometimes said, the seed growing secretly, has the same note of growth toward the harvest as do those of the sower, the tares, and the mustard seed.
What starts as a mustard seed — addressing the needs of a single vulnerable child — grows into a tree in which the birds of the air can nest.
The point of the mustard seed image in this instance is not that a mustard seed grows into a large bush, but that there is no such thing as a large mustard seed!
There's nothing that they are leaving untouched — the mustard, the okra, the rice, the brinjal (eggplant), the rice, the cauliflower — once they have established the norm that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected, and we will depend on them for every seed we grow, for every crop we grow.