إنجيل القدّيس لوقا .54-49:11
قالَ الرَبُّ يَسُوع: لِهذَا قَالَتْ حِكْمَةُ الله: أُرْسِلُ إِلَيْهِم أَنْبِياءَ وَرُسُلاً، فَيَقْتُلُونَ مِنْهُم وَيَضطَهِدُون
لِكَي يُطْلَبَ مِنْ هذا الجِيلِ دَمُ جَمِيعِ الأَنْبِيَاء، أَلَّذي سُفِكَ مُنْذُ إِنْشَاءِ العَالَم
مِنْ دَمِ هَابيلَ إِلى دَمِ زَكَرِيَّا، الَّذي قُتِلَ بَيْنَ المَذْبَحِ وَالهَيكَل. نَعَم، أَقُولُ لَكُم، إِنَّهُ سَيُطْلَبُ مِنْ هذَا الجِيل
أَلوَيْلُ لَكُم، يَا عُلَمَاءَ التَّوْرَاة! لأَنَّكُم حَمَلْتُم مِفْتَاحَ المَعْرِفَة، فَأَنْتُم مَا دَخَلْتُم، وَمَنَعْتُمُ الَّذينَ يَدْخُلُون
وَلَمَّا خَرَجَ يَسُوعُ مِنْ هُنَاك، بَدَأَ الكَتَبَةُ وَالفَرِّيسِيُّونَ يُضْمِرُونَ لَهُ حِقْدًا شَدِيدًا، وَيَسْتَدْرِجُونَهُ إِلى الكَلامِ عَلَى أُمُورٍ كَثِيرَة
وَيَتَرقَّبُونَهُ لِيَصْطَادُوهُ بِكَلِمَةٍ مِنْ فَمِهِ
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13:31-35.
Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'”
He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.”