Mark 4:31

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܐܰܝܟ݂ ܦ݁ܪܶܕ݁ܬ݁ܳܐ ܗ݈ܝ ܕ݁ܚܰܪܕ݁ܠܳܐ ܗܳܝ ܕ݁ܡܳܐ ܕ݁ܶܐܙܕ݁ܰܪܥܰܬ݂ ܒ݁ܰܐܪܥܳܐ ܙܥܽܘܪܝܳܐ ܗ݈ܝ ܡܶܢ ܟ݁ܽܠܗܽܘܢ ܙܰܪܥܽܘܢܶܐ ܕ݁ܥܰܠ ܐܰܪܥܳܐ ܀

Bible Verse Review
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like: Matthew 13:31-33, Luke 13:18, Luke 13:19

mustard seed: Mustard, ףיםבני [Strong's G4615], is a well-known plant of the tetradynamia siliquosa class, distinguished by its yellow cruciform flowers, with expanding calyx, and its pods smooth, square, and close to the stem. Its seed was probably the smallest known to the Jews; and though its ordinary height does not exceed four feet, yet a species grows to the height of from three to five cubits, with a tapering, ligneous stalk, and spreading branches.

is less than: Genesis 22:17, Genesis 22:18, Psalms 72:16-19, Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 9:7, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 49:7, Isaiah 53:2, Isaiah 53:12, Isaiah 54:1-3, Isaiah 60:22, Ezekiel 17:22-24, Daniel 2:34, Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Daniel 2:45, Amos 9:11-15, Micah 4:1, Micah 4:2, Zechariah 2:11, Zechariah 8:20-23, Zechariah 12:8, Zechariah 14:6-9, Malachi 1:11, Acts 2:41, Acts 4:4, Acts 5:14, Acts 19:20, Acts 21:20, Revelation 11:15, Revelation 20:1-6

Reciprocal: Jonah 1:16 - feared Matthew 17:20 - a grain Mark 4:28 - first

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It is like a grain of mustard seed,.... That is, the kingdom of God spoken of in the preceding verse, is like unto a grain of mustard seed; by which is meant, either the Gospel, or the Gospel church state, or the grace of God in the hearts of his people, and it may include them all: the Gospel is so called, because it treats of the two latter; but more especially, because it brings life and immortality to light, or points to the kingdom of heaven, directs the way unto it, and shows what qualifies persons for it, and gives them a claim unto it: and the Gospel church state may be so called, because here Christ dwells, and rules as king; the members of it are his subjects, and the ordinances of it are his laws, to which they are obedient: and the grace of God in the hearts of his people may be so called, because it is a governing principle in them; it reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, and by it Christ reigns in and over them: now the kingdom of God in each of these senses, may be compared to a grain of mustard seed, for the smallness of it, as follows;

which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth. The Gospel was first preached by very few persons, and these of no figure and account, especially at their first setting out. John the Baptist came preaching the kingdom of God, clothed with a garment of camel's hair, and with a leathern girdle about his loins; our Lord himself made no pompous appearance, there was no form nor comeliness in him; he was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs, and of a mean descent and occupation; his disciples were fishermen, and illiterate persons; those to whom it was preached, and by whom it was received at first were but few, and these were the poor and the unlearned, and publicans and sinners. The Gospel church state at first, consisted of very few persons, of Christ and his twelve apostles; and at his death, the number of the disciples at Jerusalem, men and women, were but an hundred and twenty; the several Gospel churches formed in the Gentile world, rose from small beginnings; from the conversion of a very few persons, and these the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things. The grace of God in the hearts of his people at first, is very little; it can scarcely be discerned by themselves, and is ready to be despised by others; their light and knowledge, their faith and experience being so exceeding small.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 13:31-32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. A grain of mustard seed — See on Matthew 13:31; Matthew 13:32.