And he said: "So is the Kingdom of God that if a man casts seed upon the Way, and sleep and rise - night and day, and the seed should spring up and mature, yet he knows not how?"

The Way bears fruit by herself - first the blade, then the ear - then the full grain in the ear. But when the fruit is ripe, he hurries out with the sickle because the hearfest has come into being."

And he said: "How shall we compare the kingdom of God - or what parable should we compare it to?

It is like a grain of mustard seed - it is sown along the Way - although microscopic of all seeds on the Way.

Yet when it is sown, it rises greater than all the trees, and shoots out great branches and thereby letting the birds of heaven tabernacle under its shadow.

And with many similar parables did he speak the Word to them - as they were able to hear and bear it. Without parables he did not speak to them - yet secretly to his own students did he interpret everything.

: Kingdom, ruler-ship of a kingdom, higher level of learning where a different king is given rather than an earthly one.

: Man, human, face of man, spherical shape of the skull - earth like...

Riches, wealth, prosperity...

: Day, daylight, knowledge as opposed to ignorance.

: Seed, issue, germ of future plants, ideas planted, that which comes from semen in the male species - the resulting produce, (good or bad)...

: In the likeness of, in the image of.

: Stand beside, present to, provide, to bring into intimacy...

: Harvest, hearing festival, ingathering of the word of God (unveiling of the scriptures) through the hearing at a special time.

: To sprout, to shoot forth, to bud with flowers and leafage, anything with the tint of renewal - rebirth, bringing rapidly...

: Grow up to, cause to grow, to lengthen, make weight, to weigh up what is divine or not...

: To drop off to sleep, to be dead...

: To rise, raise up, arise from sleep, raise with yeast, to raise up the tabernacle...

: To bear fruit, be fruitful, multiply, to bring forth the evidence of what you have learned by divine instruction...

: Compare, arrive at, to cast a shadow on, to give a similitude, compare heavenly and spiritual things with earthly things...

: Grain, corn...

: Small, minute, brief, little, microscopic...

: Greater than, vast, stronger, telescopic....

: Ascend, grow up, come up, arise, climb up...

: Branch, to shoot, branch out, a shooting forth as an arrow, to branch out, to expand like the firmament, to break down...

: Bird, wing, through the air, to fly, speed as of lightening...

: To pitch ones tabernacle, to lodge, public meeting place such as covered market or tavern...

: Shade, shadow, an image cast to represent a divine thing...

: Able, have strength, be capable, power to do something...

: Take heed, notice, give audience, given the power to listen to divine things...

: Student, learner, pupil, disciple, one who learns by experience and practice...