30And he was saying, 'How shall we liken the kingdom of God, or in what parable shall we set it?'31It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the earth, being smaller than all the seeds on the earth,32and when it is sown, rises and becomes larger than all the plants and produces great branches, so that the birds of the sky are able to dwell under its shade.33And with many such parables he was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear.34But without a parable he did not speak to them; but privately he explained everything to his own disciples.