إنجيل القدّيس لوقا .30-24:22
وقَامَ أَيْضًا بَيْنَهُم جِدَال: مَنْ مِنْهُم يُعَدُّ أَعْظَمَهُم؟
فقَالَ لَهُم يَسُوع: إِنَّ مُلُوكَ الأُمَمِ يَسُودُونَهُم، وَالمُتَسَلِّطُونَ عَلَيْهِم يُدْعَونَ مُحْسِنِين
أَمَّا أَنْتُم فَلَسْتُم هكذَا. بَلْ لِيَكُنِ الأَعْظَمُ فِيكُم كَالأَصْغَر، وَالرَّئِيسُ كَالخَادِم
فَمَنْ هُوَ أَعْظَم؟ أَهُوَ المُتَّكِئُ أَمِ الخَادِم؟ أَلَيْسَ المُتَّكِئ؟ ولكِنِّي أَنَا في وَسَطِكُم كَالخَادِم
وَأَنْتُمُ الَّذينَ ثَبَتُّم مَعِي في تَجَارِبي
فَإِنِّي أُعِدُّ لَكُمُ المَلَكُوتَ كَمَا أَعَدَّهُ لي أَبِي
لِتَأْكُلُوا وَتَشْرَبُوا عَلَى مَائِدَتي، في مَلَكُوتِي. وسَتَجْلِسُونَ عَلَى عُرُوش، لِتَدِينُوا أَسْبَاطَ إِسْرَائِيلَ الٱثْنَي عَشَر
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 4:26-34.
Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land
and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.
Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use for it?
It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown in the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.
But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to understand it.
Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private.