Mark 4:30
He said: What illustration should we use to picture the kingdom of God? What story will make it clear?
Lamentations 2:13
What example am I to give you? What comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? Your destruction is great like the sea. Who is able to make you well?
Matthew 11:16
Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates.
Matthew 13:24
He told another illustration, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field.
Matthew 13:31-32
In another illustration Jesus said: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man sowed in his field.
Luke 13:18-21
Jesus continued: To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? What is it like?