Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G Message"It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air came and nested in its branches."
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.G"It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden — it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."
KJV
King James VersionIt is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleIt is like a mustard seed that a man tossed into his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
Footnotes
The image of a great tree in whose branches birds nest is a deliberate echo of Ezekiel 17:22–24 and Daniel 4:10–12, where towering trees sheltering birds represent empires and nations. Yeshua casts the Kingdom of God in those same imperial-prophetic terms — a dominion under which all peoples find shelter — while the mustard's humble origin subverts every expectation of worldly grandeur. The F.O.G renders ta peteina tou ouranou as "birds of the sky" (the literal meaning of ouranos); the F.O.G Message uses "birds of the air," the conventional English idiom that preserves the phrase's feel without the cosmological literalism.
