'Less' in the Bible

which is less indeed than all seeds, but when it is grown is greater than herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and roost in its branches.

As to a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,

And there were women also looking on from afar off, among whom were both Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

Now I shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,