Luke 13:21
It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
20And again he said, 'To what shall I liken the reign of God?
22And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;
Cross References
Psalms 92:13Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.
Hosea 6:3And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'
John 4:14but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst — to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
1 Corinthians 5:6Not good [is] your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
Philippians 1:9and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
James 1:21wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that 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 →