Luke 13:19

waxed a great tree Omit greatwith א, B, D, L, &c. The points of comparison are the sudden, secret growth, and the immense development of the kingdom of God. The mustard seed was colloquially spoken of by the Jews as -the smallest of all seeds," and it grew into a herbaceous plant, as tall as a horse and his rider (Thomson, Land and Book).

the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of if The substantive corresponding to the verb - lodged" is found in Luke 9:58 (-nests," rather shelters). Finches, and other small birds, throng the mustard beds to live on the seed (Tristram, Nat. Hist. Bib.473).