Mark: God ([xvi, 19]).
The modesty of the foregoing request is apparent. Zebedee’s family were evidently trying to play a sharp game on Jesus, and get a first mortgage on his Father’s throne.
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What did Jesus affirm in regard to the mustard seed?
“Which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown is the greatest among the herbs” ([Matthew xiii, 32]).
A mustard seed is not “the least of all seeds;” neither is the plant “the greatest among herbs.”
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With faith as large as a grain of mustard seed, what did he say his disciples could do?