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Luke 13:21 KJV
Luke · chapter 13 · verse 21
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.Luke 13:21 · King James Version
Luke 13:21 in context
19It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
20And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
21It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
22And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
23Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
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Key words (Strong's)
- measuressatona kind of dry measure, 3 gallonsG4568 →
- leavenzymēleaven, metaph. of inveterate mental and moral corruption, viewed in its tendency to…G2219 →
- womangynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- threetreisthreeG5140 →
- wholeholosall, whole, completelyG3650 →
- likehomoioslike, similar, resembling, likeG3664 →
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Here is, I. The gospel's progress foretold in two parables, which we had before, Mat 13:31-33. The kingdom of the Messiah is the kingdom of God, for it advances his glory; this kingdom was yet a mystery, and people were generally in the dark, and under mistakes, about it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-22