It is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which when it is sown in the ground, is one of the lest of all the seeds on the earth:

But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is nowhere less honoured, than in his own country, and among his relations, and his own family.

There were also women at a distance looking on: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;