إنجيل القدّيس متّى 13:23-15
أَلوَيلُ لَكُم، أَيُّها الكَتَبَةُ والفَرِّيسِيُّونَ المُراؤُون! لأَنَّكُم تُغْلِقُونَ مَلَكُوتَ السَّمَاواتِ في وَجْهِ النَّاس، فلا أَنْتُم تَدْخُلُون، ولا تَدَعُونَ الدَّاخِلينَ يَدْخُلُون.
أَلوَيلُ لَكُم، أَيُّهَا الكَتَبَةُ والفَرِّيسِيُّونَ المُراؤُون! لأَنَّكُم تَطُوفُونَ البَحْرَ والبَرّ، لِتُحَوِّلُوا وثَنِيًّا وَاحِدًا إِلى دِيَانَتِكُم، ومَتَى صَارَ يَهُودِيًّا، تُحَوِّلُونَهُ ٱبْنَ جَهَنَّم، ضِعْفَ مَا أَنْتُم عَلَيْه
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13:31-35.
He proposed another parable to them. “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).”