32. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown it is larger than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”
33. He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”
34. Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable,
35. in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation.”
36. Then he left the crowds and came into the house, and his disciples came to him saying, “Explain the parable of the darnel in the field to us.”
37. So he answered and said, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
38. and the field is the world. And the good seed—these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one.
39. And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40. Thus just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.
41. The Son of Man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and those who do lawless deeds,
42. and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
43. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears, let him hear!
44. “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, that a man found and concealed, and in his joy he goes and sells everything that he has and buys that field.
45. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.
46. And when he found one very valuable pearl, he went and sold everything that he possessed and purchased it.
47. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind,
48. which when it was filled they pulled to shore and sat down and collected the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw out.