Matthew 13:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.

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  • Dan 4:12 : 12 Its leaves were fair and it had much fruit, and in it was food enough for all: the beasts of the field had shade under it, and the birds of heaven were resting in its branches, and it gave food to all living things.
  • Ezek 31:6 : 6 In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.
  • Acts 21:20 : 20 And hearing it, they gave praise to God; and they said to him, You see, brother, what thousands there are among the Jews, who have the faith; and they all have a great respect for the law:
  • Rom 15:18-19 : 18 And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act, 19 By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;
  • Dan 2:44-45 : 44 And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever. 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that by it the iron and the brass and the earth and the silver and the gold were broken to bits, a great God has given the king knowledge of what is to take place in the future: the dream is fixed, and its sense is certain.
  • Ezek 47:1-5 : 1 And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar. 2 And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side. 3 And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet. 4 And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body. 5 Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.
  • Dan 2:34-35 : 34 While you were looking at it, a stone was cut out, but not by hands, and it gave the image a blow on its feet, which were of iron and earth, and they were broken in bits. 35 Then the iron and the earth, the brass and the silver and the gold, were smashed together, and became like the dust on the floors where grain is crushed in summer; and the wind took them away so that no sign of them was to be seen: and the stone which gave the image a blow became a great mountain, covering all the earth.
  • Mic 4:1-3 : 1 But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it. 2 And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 3 And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.
  • Zech 4:10 : 10 For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.
  • Zech 8:20-23 : 20 This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come, 21 And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. 22 And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. 23 This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
  • Zech 14:7-9 : 7 And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light. 8 And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so. 9 And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord and his name one. 10 And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will be living in her.
  • Acts 1:15 : 15 And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,
  • Ps 72:16-19 : 16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth. 17 May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name. 18 Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders. 19 Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.
  • Ps 104:12 : 12 The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.
  • Isa 2:2-4 : 2 And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it. 3 And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
  • Ezek 17:23-24 : 23 It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches. 24 And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.
  • Rev 11:15 : 15 And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

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  • Mark 4:30-33
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    30And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

    31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

    32But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

    33And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

  • Luke 13:18-21
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    18Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?

    19It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

    20And again he said, What is the kingdom of God like?

    21It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

  • Matt 13:31
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    31He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

  • Matt 13:33
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    33Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

  • Matt 13:3-8
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    3And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

    4And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:

    5And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:

    6And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root it became dry and dead.

    7And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

    8And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

  • Matt 13:21-26
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    21But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

    22And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.

    23And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

    24And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

    25But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.

    26But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.

  • Luke 8:11
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    11Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

  • Mark 4:26-27
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    26And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

    27And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

  • Luke 17:6
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    6And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
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    5And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

    6And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

  • Ezek 17:23
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    23It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

  • Mark 13:28
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    28Take an example from the fig-tree: when its branches become soft and put out their leaves, you see that the summer is near;

  • Luke 21:29
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    29And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

  • Matt 13:18-19
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    18Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

    19When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

  • Mark 4:3-4
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    3A man went out to put seed in the earth:

    4And while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took it for food.

  • Dan 4:11
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    11And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

  • Matt 13:37-38
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    37And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;

    38And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

  • Luke 8:7
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    7And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.

  • Dan 4:20-21
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    20The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;

    21Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:

  • Mark 4:7
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    7And some went among the thorns, and the thorns came up, and it had no room for growth and gave no fruit.

  • Ezek 31:6
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    6In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

  • Matt 13:47
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    47Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:

  • Matt 15:13
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    13But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

  • Matt 24:32
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    32Now take an example from the fig-tree: when her branch has become soft and puts out its leaves, you are certain that the summer is near;

  • Matt 13:44
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    44The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

  • Luke 12:28
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    28But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?

  • Job 14:8
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    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;