and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil,

these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.