Luke 13:21
It is like leaven which a woman took; (and) hid in three satas of meal, until all had leavened.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
20Jeshu said again, To what shall I compare the kingdom of Aloha?
22And he journeyed, teaching in the villages and in the cities, and going forwards to Urishlem.
Cross References
John 4:14but every one who shall drink of the waters that I will give him shall never thirst; but those waters that I shall give him shall be in him a fountain of waters, that shall spring forth to the life of eternity.
1 Corinthians 5:6MY brethren, your boasting is not seemly. Know you not that a little leaven the whole mass leaveneth?
Philippians 1:9And this I pray, that your love may still increase and abound in knowledge and in all spiritual understanding;
James 1:21Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.
Matthew Henry on Luke 13:19-23
The Widow of Nain. 18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? 19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. 20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. 22 And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and… Read the whole commentary →