Parallel parable - mustard seed [∞]
Discussion
| Mustard seed kingdom of heaven [∞]
- ▸ ± Mr 4:30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
- ▸ ± Mt 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
- ▸ ± Lu 13:18 ¶ Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
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| Synoptic mustard seed [∞]
- ▸ ± Mr 4:31 [It is] like a grain of mustard seed,
- ▸ ± Mt 13:31 like to a grain of mustard seed,
- ▸ ± Lu 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed,
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Least of the seeds [∞]
- ▸ ± Mr 4:31 is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
- ▸ ± Mt 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds:
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| Seed grows [∞]
- ▸ ± Mr 4:32 But when it is sown, Mr 4:32b it groweth up,
- ▸ ± Mt 13:32 but when it is grown,
- ▸ ± Lu 13:19 and it grew,
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| Greatest herb [∞]
- ▸ ± Mr 4:32 and becometh greater than all herbs,
- ▸ ± Mt 13:32 it is the greatest among herbs,
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| Great tree [∞]
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The parable [1] progresses from the seed, which represents Jesus in the event of his birth [2], to the herb, which also represents Jesus in the event of his life [3] and then to the tree , which we can safely say also represents Jesus, and the event of the cross.
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- The Hebrew word for 'tree' is ets עץ also means 'the flesh ע of the judge (the righteous man) died ץ.
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Jesus has pointed backwards now to Ge 1:11, 12 [1][2] He references the seed, the herb and the tree and is giving a commentary on it. It would be fulfilled by him.
Please notice that this is a reference to the cross on day 3 of creation, and man was not created until day 6. It displays God's love that he had a plan to reveal himself to us through Christ and the cross before he made man.
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- ↑ ▸ ± Ge 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. [{grass: Heb. tender grass }]
- ↑ ▸ ± Ge 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
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If we use Greek methods of interpretation, we must read Ge 1:11,12 literally. They determine that God literally made grass and herbs with seed and trees with fruit which had seed. However, the purpose of scripture is not to give us a history, though it does. It's purpose is to reveal the invisible Father through the Son [1]. If we miss the son in it, we have missed the point. [2]
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- ↑ ▸ ± Mt 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him].
- ↑ ▸ ± Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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| Shadow or branches [∞]
- ▸ ± Mr 4:32 so that the fowls of the air may lodge Mr 4:32 under the shadow of it.
- ▸ ± Mt 13:32 so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
- ▸ ± Lu 13:19 and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
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