19 It is like a mustard seed that a man took and[a] sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

The Parable of the Yeast

20 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and[b] hid in[c] three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 13:19 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Luke 13:21 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“took”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Luke 13:21 Some manuscripts have “put into”