29. When the corn is ripe, the man starts cutting it with his sickle, because harvest time has come.
30. “What shall we say the Kingdom of God is like?” asked Jesus. “What parable shall we use to explain it?
31. It is like this. A man takes a mustard seed, the smallest seed in the world, and plants it in the ground.
32. After a while it grows up and becomes the biggest of all plants. It puts out such large branches that the birds come and make their nests in its shade.”