It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown in the ground, though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the world,

For those will be times of suffering the like of which has never been from the first creation of God's world until now, and assuredly never will be again;

who does not get a hundred times as much ??in this present world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands, together with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal.

And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes.

And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground.