16. Then isn’t it necessary that this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for eighteen long years, be set free from her bondage on the Sabbath day?"
17. When he said these things, all his opponents were put to shame, but all those in the crowd rejoiced at all the extraordinary things he was doing.
18. Jesus asked, "What is God’s kingdom like? To what can I compare it?
19. It’s like a mustard seed that someone took and planted in a garden. It grew and developed into a tree and the birds in the sky nested in its branches."
20. Again he said, "To what can I compare God’s kingdom?
21. It’s like yeast, which a woman took and hid in a bushel of wheat flour until the yeast had worked its way through the whole."