Mark 4:31-33

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³¹ It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; ³² yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.’

The Use of Parables

³³ With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;