Luke 13:19

“It is like a grain of mustard seed, etc.] Both for its smallness at first, and its after increase; wherefore both the Evangelists Matthew and Mark observe, that it “is the least of all seed”: which is true of the ministry of the Gospel, of the Gospel church state, and of the grace of God in the hearts of his people: which a man took and cast into his garden; the Ethiopic version renders it, “and sowed in his field”, as in (<401331>Matthew 13:31) though mustard used to be sowed in gardens as well as in fields. f430 Says R. Simeon ben Chelphetha, I have one stalk of mustard seed, ylç dwtb, “in my garden”: so f431 Buxtorf translates it. And by the place in the text, where this seed is cast, may…”

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“13:19 the birds make nests: The birds represent people who find the Kingdom to be a place of protection and security.”

“like: Mat 13:31, Mat 13:32, Mat 17:20; Mar 4:31, Mar 4:32 cast: Sol 4:12, Sol 4:16, Sol 5:1, Sol 6:2, Sol 8:13; Isa 58:11, Isa 61:11; Jer 31:12 and it: Psa 72:16, Psa 72:17; Isa 2:2, Isa 2:3, Isa 9:7, Isa 49:20-25, Isa 51:2, Isa 51:3, Isa 53:1, Isa 53:10-12, Isa 54:1-3; Isa 60:15-22; Eze 17:22-24, Eze 47:1-12; Dan 2:34, Dan 2:35, Dan 2:44, Dan 2:45; Mic 4:1, Mic 4:2; Zac 2:11, Zac 8:20-23, Zac 14:7-9; Act 2:41, Act 4:4, Act 15:14-18, Act 21:20 \*Gr: Rom 15:19; Rev 11:15 and the: Eze 31:6; Dan 4:12, Dan 4:21 Luke 13:21”