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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - Mark 4:32 - 4:32
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Groweth up (anabainei). Mat 13:32 When it is grown (hotan auxēthēi).
Under the shadow thereof (hupo tēn skian autou). A different picture from Matthew’s in the branches thereof (en tois kladois autou). But both use kataskēnoin, to tent or camp down, make nests in the branches in the shade or hop on the ground under the shade just like a covey of birds. In Mat 8:20 the birds have nests (kataskēnōseis). The use of the mustard seed for smallness seems to have been proverbial and Jesus employs it elsewhere (Mat 17:20; Luk 17:6).