21. He said to them, “Is a candle brought to be put under a basket or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick?
22. For there is nothing hidden except to be revealed; neither is anything kept secret except to be proclaimed.
23. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
24. He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. The measure you give will be measured for you, and to you who hear will more be given.
25. For to him who has will more be given. And from him who has not will be taken, even what he has.”
26. He said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
27. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he does not know how.
28. For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade, then the head, then the full seed in the head.
29. But when the grain is ripe, immediately he applies the sickle because the harvest has come.”
30. He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God, or with what parable shall we compare it?
31. It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest seed on earth.