Matthew 13:24

¹“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

⁴⁷“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some fish of every kind,

¹“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

²“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

³⁷He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

²⁰Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

³³He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures^[+] of meal, until it was all leavened.”

¹⁸He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

²⁶He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth, ²⁷and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how. ²⁸For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. ²⁹But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

³⁰He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

³¹He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,