![]() Jordan Valley, all the way to the Lebanese border and up to the sides of Mt. This mustard plant grew along the coastal plain north of the Ben Gurion Airport region and in Galilee north from the lake, up the In the summer the mustard was in dry brittle seed pods and I sampled it in various places across Israel. The wild and domestic mustard were considered two different types of seeds. Set aside a separate plot for each crop defined by borders. The Jews were not allowed to mix their fields with two types of seeds, i.e. There was wild and domesticated mustard in The Talmud described use of mustard for sauce, but not too much at once as it was bitter. The same day I found a ten foot, two inch mustard plant along the road fromīethsaida to the Golan within a few kilometers of Bethsaida. Height of trees, but of a shape similar to a tree with sturdy branches. Years later I traveled again and found the tall type of mustard in the Jordan Delta not the great I knew it was thick enough to provide cover for birds from Tiberias and found mustard plants in a thick group some over eight feet tall. One day I was driving in the Golan above the eastern shore of Lake I spent vacation time roaming through Israel by car and on foot. I have tasted both the seeds and the leaves of the plant and have verified it is a species of the mustard family, a short pod black mustard. I have seen them flowering as early as March, yet they typically reached maximum height around Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee/Yam Chinnereth) in April. Having read a few accounts of very tall mustard plants in early books, I traveled to Israel praying that I might see the giant mustard. ![]() Jordan River Delta Plain, below Bethsaida April 2008 The truth of the parable is that though faith might start as a small thing. A taller one was even more like a tree than a I found one growing above ten feet and it was not likely the tallest mustard that ever grew. Its height was great and in Matthew the mustard plant was described as a Here the mustard seed is described as an herb or garden plant. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air 34 Without a parable he didn’t speak to them but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.ģ1 He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field ģ2 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. ![]() Herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.” 33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them,Īs they were able to hear it. Sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, 32 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the 30 He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? 31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is ![]()
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