33Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
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A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? …
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. …
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-43)In these verses, we have, I. Another reason given why Christ preached by parables, Matt. 13:34 , 35 . All these things he spoke in parables , because the time was not yet come for the more clear and plain discoveries of the mysteries of the kingdom. Christ, to keep the people attending and expecting, preached in parables, and without a parable spake he not unto them ; namely, at this time and in t…
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