How it works
Jesus told two short stories, called parables. In the first, a gardener had a basket of seeds of every size, and the mustard seed was the tiniest, smaller than a crumb of bread.
He sowed it, and the rain fell. A small green shoot pushed up, and it grew into the biggest plant in the garden, with birds nesting in its branches.
In the second story, a woman folded a little yeast into a lot of flour. It was hidden in the dough, and it made all the dough rise.
Jesus said God's kingdom is like that: it starts tiny, and then it grows. The episode says small things matter.