What do I testify [to] thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea [is] thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

'And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

And he said, 'To what is the reign of God like? and to what shall I liken it?

And again he said, 'To what shall I liken the reign of God?

It is like leaven, which a woman, having taken, did hide in three measures of meal, till that all was leavened.'