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30 Again he said, to what shall we compare the state of the gospel? or by what parable shall we represent it?
31 it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.
32 but after it is sown, it grows up, and becometh larger than other plants of the pulse kind, and shooteth out its branches so high, that the fowls of the air may lodge under its shadow.
33 Thus he instructed them by such a variety of parables as were adapted to their capacity.
34 his stile in publick was figurative, but he explain'd every thing to his disciples in private.