Bible Study – Jesus the Messiah #035

མད་ཐཱ། 13:33

33 ཁོང་གིས་དཔེ་གཞན་ཞིག་ཁོ་ཚོར་བསྟན་ཏེ་ “དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་རྒྱལ་སྲིད་ནི་སྐྱུར་རྩི་དང་འདྲ་སྟེ། བུད་མེད་ཅིག་གིས་དེ་གྲོ་ཕྱེ་བྲེ་གསུམ་གྱི་ནང་ལ་བསྲེས་པ་དང༌། རྗེས་མ་ཕྱེ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སྐྱུར་ལངས་” ཞེས་གསུངས།

 

Matthew 13:33

33 He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Study notes –

1. Jesus speaks of another parable with reference to leaven which may hint to three issues
2. Leaven may point to inevitable natural process of growth
3. Leaven in scripture may also refer to evil influences and suggest possible corruption among believers community in the future
4. The large quantity of flour may suggest the extending impact and influence
5. This parable may be paired with the Parable of Mustard Seed