Bible Verses

Then a storm gathered, and it started to blow fiercely. The waves spilled into the boat, quickly filling it with water. 

They left the crowd and took him along in the boat he was sitting in, while other boats set out with him. 

Calming a Storm Later that day, as evening approached, Jesus told them: “Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.”

He would not teach them without parables, but privately, to his disciples, he explained everything.

Use of Parables Jesus used many such stories to communicate the word in a way they could understand.

 But once sown, it grows up and becomes the largest of the plants in the garden; and it even grows branches so big that the birds of the air can take shelter in its shade.”

 It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown, is the smallest of all the seeds scattered upon the soil. 

Parable of the Mustard Seed He said: “What is the kingdom of God like? To what shall we compare it?

When it is ready for harvest, they pull out the sickle to cut it—because the harvest time has come.”

The soil produces on its own: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.