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Matthew 13:29-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

29. And he said: 'No, lest perhaps in gathering the weeds, you might also root out the wheat together with it.

30. Permit both to grow until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers: Gather first the weeds, and bind them into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather into my storehouse.' "

31. He proposed another parable to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.

32. It is, indeed, the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is greater than all the plants, and it becomes a tree, so much so that the birds of the air come and dwell in its branches."

33. He spoke another parable to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of fine wheat flour, until it was entirely leavened."

34. All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the crowds. And he did not speak to them apart from parables,

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