The Parables // The Leaven

Who doesn’t love some fresh bread? Jesus is the bread of life, right? Ya know, not the kale of life. Anyway, this one little verse packs a punch of a parable. A lot of the time the leaven is referred to as an influence that would be negative. Jesus is changing the analogy though.

Read: Matthew 13:33

Notes:

• Leaven is yeast
• Sometimes leaven is referring to corruption but not in this case.
• The parable is using an example of something small increase the size of something
• So the leaven increases the bread size as it rises.
• Just like the kingdom of heaven increases with Jesus.

Discuss with Kids :

• What is leaven? Something, usually yeast, that is used to make dough rise.
• What would bread be like without yeast?
• Because of Jesus, how big and great is heaven?