The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed.... This is a scraggly, ugly, and surprisingly small plant. If you were a farmer back in Jesus's day, the mustard plant would be a huge nuisance because it was hard to get them out of your crop(assuming you were trying to grow something else). Why would Jesus have used this analogy to describe the Kingdom of Heaven. In Eugene Peterson's translation of the Bible, he changes this parable from a mustard tree to a pine tree. That would seem to make more sense. After all, the pine tree is big and majestic, but a mustard plant? Really?
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