18And he said, `To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?
19It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.`
20And again he said, `To what shall I liken the reign of God?
21It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.`
22And he was going through cities and villages, teaching, and making progress toward Jerusalem;
23and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?` and he said unto them,
24`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;