Parable of the Mustard Seed
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The Parable of the Mustard Seed is one of the shorter parables of Jesus. It appears in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, it is immediately followed by the Parable of the Lea
The black mustard plant
Parable of the Sower
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The Parable of the Sower is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 13, Mark 4, Luke 8 and the extra-canonical Gospel of Thomas.
Parable of the Mustard Seed
…Parable of the Leaven (which in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke immediately follows) shares this theme of large growth from small beginnings. As with the Parable of the Sower, which in Matthew and Mark occurs earlier in the same chapter, the man sowing the seed represents Jesus, and the plant is the Kingdom of God. New…
'Sowing the Seed' (Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary)
Parable of the Sower (left) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Parable of the Sower, 1557.
The Sower of good seed, 1180.