Parallel Texts in Matthew, Mark & Luke

8. Mustard & Leaven
Matt 13:31-35 // Mark 4:30-34 // Luke 13:18-20

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Greek Text

The reconstruction of the gospel texts below is based on the critical edition of E. Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece presented with a fuller critical apparatus in Kurt Aland's Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum  ed. ii (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1964) pp. 181-182.  The matched column format & color coding employed here is the original work of the author of this electronic edition. The accented Greek script used to compose this synopsis is the unicode font, Palatino Linotype.

PARABLE  of  the MUSTARD 
Matthew 13 Mark 4 Luke 13
31  Ἄλλην παραβολὴν*        
  παρέϑηκεν αὐτοῖς        
  λέγων· 30  Καὶ λεγεν 18  λεγεν οὖν
  ὁμοία ἐστὶν   πῶς  ὁμοιώσωμεν*    τίνι ὁμοία ἐστὶν
  βασιλεία   τὴν βασιλείαν    βασιλεία
  τῶν οὐρανῶν   τοῦ ϑεοῦ,   τοῦ ϑεοῦ,
    ἢ ἐν τίνι   καὶ τίνι
    αὐτὴν   ὁμοιώσω*  αὐτὴν;
      παραβολῇ* ϑῶμεν;  
    31 ὧς 19 ὁμοία ἐστὶν
  κόκκῳ σινάπεως   κόκκῳ σινάπεως   κόκκῳ σινάπεως
  ὃν λαβὼν   ὃς ὅταν   ὃν λαβὼν
  ἄνϑρωπος ἔσπειρεν    σπαρῇ   ἄνϑρωπος ἔβαλεν  
  ἐν τῷ ἀγρῶ αὐτοῦ:   ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,   εἰς κῆπον ἑαυτοῦ,
32  ὃ μικρότερον μέν   μικρότερον    
  ἐστιν   ὄν  
  πάντων   πάντων    
  τῶν σπερμάτων,   τῶν σπερμάτων  
    τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,  
  ὅταν δὲ 32 καὶ ὅταν σπαρῇ,    
  αὐξηϑῇ,      ἀναβαίνει   καὶ ηὔξησεν
    καὶ γίνεται*  
  μεῖζον   μεῖζον παντῶν    
  τῶν λαχάνον   τῶν λαχάνον,  
  ἐστὶν    
  καὶ γίνεται*     καὶ ἐγένετο
  δένδρον   ** εἰς δένδρον, 
     καὶ ποιεῖ   καὶ
      κλάδους μεγάλους,    
  ὥστε ἐλϑεῖν   ὥστε δύνασϑαι    
    ὑπὸ τὴν σκιὰν  
    αὐτοῦ  
  τὰ πετεινὰ   τὰ πετεινὰ   τὰ πετεινὰ
  τοῦ οὐρανοῦ   τοῦ οὐρανοῦ   τοῦ οὐρανοῦ
  καὶ κατεσκηνοῦν   κατεσκηνοῦν.   κατεσκήνωσεν
  ἐν τοῖς κλάδοις     ἐν τοῖς κλάδοις
  αὐτοῦ.     αὐτοῦ.
PARABLE  of  the LEAVEN 
Matthew 13 Mark 4 Luke 13
33 Ἄλλην παραβολὴν      
  ἐλάλησεν  αὐτοῖς:     20 Καὶ πάλιν εἴπεν:
  ὁμοία ἐστὶν*       τίνι ὁμοίωσω
  βασιλεία       τὴν βασιλείαν
  τῶν οὐρανῶν       τοῦ ϑεοῦ;
        ὁμοία ἐστὶν*
  ζύμῃ,       ζύμῃ,
  ἣν λαβοῦσα γυνὴ        ἣν λαβοῦσα γυνὴ 
  ἐνέκρυψεν        ἔκρυψεν 
  εἰς ἀλεύρου        εἰς ἀλεύρου 
  σάτα τρία,        σάτα τρία, 
  ἕως  οὗ       ἕως  οὗ
  ἐζυμώϑη ὅλον.        ἐζυμώϑη ὅλον. 
JESUS  SPEAKS  in  PARABLES 
Matthew 13 Mark 4 Luke 13
34 Ταῦτα πάντα  33 Καὶ τοιαύτοις     
    παραβολαῖς πολλαῖς     
  ἐλαλησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς   ἐλάλει    
  ἐν παραβολῆς      
  τοῖς  ὄχλοις,    αὐτοῖς    
    τὸν λόγον    
    καϑὼς    
    ἠδύναντο ἀκούειν·     
  καὶ χωρὶς 34 χωρὶς δὲ    
  παραβολῆς   παραβολῆς    
  οὐδὲν ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς·   οὐκ ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς,    
      κατ᾿ ἰδίαν δὲ     
      τοῖς ἰδίοις μαϑηταῖς     
      ἐπελύεν πάντα.     
35 ὅπως πληρωϑῇ        
  τὸ ῥηϑὲν        
  διὰ τοῦ προϕήτου        
  λέγοντος·        
  ἀνοίξω        
  ἐν παραβολαῖς        
  τὸ στόμα μου,        
  ἐρεύξομαι        
  κεκρυμμένα        
  ἀπὸ καταβολῆς.        

** Note: The RSV follows codices Sinaiticus & Vaticanus & p75. Most later mss. of Luke qualify the tree as μέγα.

Color Key
 Blue  Three gospels use same vocabulary.
 Teal  Two gospels use same vocabulary.
 Black  Words unique to a particular gospel.
 <and  RSV wording revised to reflect Greek.
 [ it ]  RSV wording not found in Greek.
   No parallel passage in this gospel.
*  Same wording, different order

 
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