He told them another parable. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened. The leaven parable is the fourth: the kingdom works invisibly through the entire batch. Three measures of flour is a very large amount — enough to feed a hundred people — and the leaven that works through all of it communicates the comprehensive transformation that the kingdom produces. The hidden working of the leaven communicates that the kingdom's advance is not always visible but is nonetheless certain.

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