In Context

30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, |First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.|'|

31 He set another parable before them, saying, |The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.|

33 He spoke another parable to them. |The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.|

34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, |I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.|

Matthew 13:33 in Other Translations