Granum Sinapis — Parable of the Mustard Seed Sketch Tee

“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” — Matthew 13:31–32 (ESV) · cf. Mark 4:30–32. Restored from Franz Eugen Köhler and Walther Müller’s 1887 botanical plate of Brassica nigra (Sinapis nigra, Black Mustard) in Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen. Juxtaposes the flowering upper branch and pinnatifid lower leaf against ten magnified dissections of the silique seed pods and minute spherical seeds (Figs. 8–10.