Actually, this is the smallest of seeds, but when it grows is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. “
After they said this one parable: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a little leaven that a woman mixes with a great quantity of flour, until the whole mass ferments.”
All this Jesus said to the crowd through parables, and he did not speak to them without parables,
so that what was announced by the Prophet would be fulfilled: I will speak in parables, I will announce things that were hidden since the creation of the world.
Reflection: Let the seed of the Kingdom sown from our Baptism grow from trust in love and dependence on God, so that he feels proud to gird himself with our life and make his mercy and our testimony the best press of his salvation.