When his followers asked Jesus to increase their faith, he told them the parable of the mustard seed. Though it was the smallest of seeds, once sown the mustard plant sprang up and spread rapidly.

Twelve long years of suffering and shame. She endured menstrual hemorrhages for over a decade, and all that they entailed: ...

In his first public general audience address, Pope Leo XIV said he would continue his predecessor’s reflection on Jesus ...

It's a way of provoking people to think for themselves.... [For example], Jesus tells a parable about somebody who takes a mustard seed, plants it in the ground, and it grows up to be a great tree ...

In the second parable, the reign of God seems to be nothing but an insignificant mustard seed, and yet it is to grow and turn out to be the largest of bushes. And, as with any seed, in a way the large ...

Jesus told them another parable to further ... It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up ...

Mustard Seed has come a long way since its founding in 1974 by the Willemses and Bob Mendlesohn, a convert to Christianity who later became a leader of Jews for Jesus and now lives in Sydney ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Mark’s Gentile readers would have taken great comfort and hope from this parable.

The agrarian Galilee, I’m sure, provided Jesus so many lessons growing up. His context seems to inspire so many of his parables, like the mustard seed, the lost sheep, the unforgiving servant ...