Mark 4:30-33

301And He said, “How shall we 23picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? 31It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil, 32yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that 4the birds of the 5air can nest under its shade.”

33With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;