Luke 13:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?

Luke 13:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 4:30-34
And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? …
Luke 17:21
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Matthew 13:31-32
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: …
Luke 13:20
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Mark 4:26
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-22)

Here is, I. The gospel’s progress foretold in two parables, which we had before, Matt. 13:31-33. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God, for it advances his glory; this kingdom was yet a mystery, and people were generally in the dark, and under mistakes, about it. Now, when we would describe a thing to those that are strangers to it, we choose to do it by similitudes. “Such a person you…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18-21. mustard seed ... leaven--(See on Mr 4:30-32). The parable of “the Leaven” sets forth, perhaps, rather the inward growth of the kingdom, while “the Mustard Seed” seems to point chiefly to the outward. It being a woman’s work to knead, it seems a refinement to say that “the woman” here represents the Church, as the instrument of depositing the leaven. Nor does it yield much satisfaction to un…