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“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,”
Mark 4:31
The mustard seed is not the smallest seed on the earth today, so how can this be reconciled with Jesus speaking the truth? Or was He wrong?
- Is it that mustard seeds were the smallest at the time but evolutionarily other seeds became smaller
- Is it a hyperbolic use of language opening the gateway to discredit many other sayings of Jesus as inaccurate
- Is the smallest harvestable seed, making it technically the smallest but not necessarily related explicitly in the text
- Is it something else, related to translation possibly
What is the explanation?
