Matthew 13:33
Good News Translation
Jesus told them still another parable: "The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A woman takes some yeast and mixes it with a bushel of flour until the whole batch of dough rises."

New Revised Standard Version
He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus also said: The kingdom of heaven is like what happens when a woman mixes a little yeast into three big batches of flour. Finally, all the dough rises.

New American Bible
He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened.

Another.

Mark 13:20 And unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh should be saved: but, for the sake of the elect which he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

like.

Luke 13:21 It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

1 Corinthians 5:6,7 Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump? . . .

Galatians 5:9 A little leaven corrupteth the whole lump.

measures.

till.

Job 17:9 And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Proverbs 4:18 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

Hosea 6:3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

John 16:12,13 I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. . . .

Philippians 1:6,9 Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus. . . .

Philippians 2:13-15 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:23,24 And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity, Amen.

Context
The Parable of the Leaven
32Which is the least indeed of all seeds; but when it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come, and dwell in the branches thereof. 33Another parable he spoke to them: The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. 34All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:6
Abraham made haste into the tent to Sara, and said to her: Make haste, temper together three measures of flour, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Judges 6:19
So Gedeon went in, and boiled a kid, and made unleavened loaves of a measure of flour: and putting the flesh in a basket, and the broth of the flesh into a pot, he carried all under the oak, and presented to him.

1 Samuel 1:24
And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet very young:

Matthew 13:24
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field.

Luke 13:21
It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Matthew 13:32
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