Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And he said, 'To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
New American Standard Bible
So
King James Version
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
Holman Bible
He said, therefore,
International Standard Version
So Jesus went on to say, "What is the kingdom of God like? What can I compare it to?
A Conservative Version
And he said, What is the kingdom of God like, and to what will I compare it?
American Standard Version
He said therefore, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I liken it?
Amplified
So this led Him to say,
An Understandable Version
Then Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? And what shall I compare it to?
Anderson New Testament
Then he said: To what is the kingdom of God like; and to what shall I liken it?
Bible in Basic English
Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?
Common New Testament
Then he said, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Then he said, what does the kingdom of God resemble? to what shall I compare it?
Darby Translation
And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
Godbey New Testament
Then He said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
Goodspeed New Testament
He said, therefore, "What is the Kingdom of God like, and to what can I compare it?
John Wesley New Testament
Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I resemble it?
Julia Smith Translation
And he said, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
King James 2000
Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore he said, "What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?
Modern King James verseion
And He said, What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then said he, "What is the kingdom of God like? Or whereto shall I compare it?
Moffatt New Testament
So he said, "What is the Reign of God like? to what shall I compare it?
Montgomery New Testament
This led him to say. "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?
NET Bible
Thus Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?
New Heart English Bible
He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?
Noyes New Testament
He said therefore, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it?
Sawyer New Testament
And he said, What is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
The Emphasized Bible
He went on to say, therefore - Whereunto, is the kingdom of God, like? And, whereunto, shall I liken it?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I compare it?
Twentieth Century New Testament
So Jesus said: "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what can I liken it?
Webster
Then said he, To what is the kingdom of God like? and to what shall I resemble it?
Weymouth New Testament
This prompted Him to say, "What is the Kingdom of God like? and to what shall I compare it?
Williams New Testament
So He went on to say, "What is the kingdom of God like? To what may I compare it?
World English Bible
He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?
Worrell New Testament
And He said, "To what is the Kingdom of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
Worsley New Testament
Then said He, To what is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?
Themes
Gospel » Compared to » A mustard seed
Jesus Christ » Parables of » The mustard seed
Kingdom of God » What the kingdom of God is likened to
Kingdom of heaven » Compared » To a granule of mustard seed
Similitudes » The church compared to » Of the kingdom of heaven
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 13:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parable Of The Mustard Seed
17 And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him. 18 And he said, 'To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it? 19 It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.'
Cross References
Luke 13:20
And again he said, 'To what shall I liken the reign of God?
Lamentations 2:13
What do I testify to thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea is thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?
Matthew 13:24
Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,
Matthew 13:31-32
Another simile he set before them, saying: 'The reign of the heavens is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did sow in his field,
Mark 4:26
And he said, 'Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,
Mark 4:30-34
And he said, 'To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?
Luke 7:31
And the Lord said, 'To what, then, shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?
Luke 17:21
nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'