It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
The lessons which our Saviour designs to teach us here by parables and figurative expressions are these: - I. That those who are good ought to consider the obligations they are under to do good; that is, as in the parable before, to bring forth fruit.
Commenting on Mark 4:21-34
And when they had sent away the multitude,.... Who had been attending him all day on the sea shore; though they seem to have been dismissed by Christ, when he went into the house, and privately interpreted the parables to his disciples: see Mat 13:36, wherefore it is possible, that upon Christ's going to the sea shore again, in order to take boat for the...
A grain of mustard seed - See on Mat 13:31, Mat 13:32 (note).