“And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.”
He replied, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it will obey you — the mustard-seed faith: the smallest conceivable faith is sufficient for the impossible command. The mulberry tree uprooted and planted in the sea is the kingdom's paradox-idiom for the genuinely impossible. The point is not that more faith is needed but that any genuine faith is sufficient.
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