Jude 2

What is your understanding of the leaven parable, Is it of good or bad connotation?

Matthew 13:33
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened
This is how I would view it, remembering that the Jew's has a custom of removal of the Chametz (old leaven)
The custom of hidden of ten pieces of chametz in a room to be searched, then the children would hunt and find all ten.

Jesus said, the woman hid the leaven in three measures of meal (grain). What is the implcation?

In context of the other kingdom of heaven parables.

I see no one knows

In this context it is good. The leavening process typifies the gradual effect the leaven has on the dough, until the whole is leavened.

In the same way, the introduction of Kingdom power and life into the earth, though initially small, grows, has grown, and will continue to grow till the whole world knows and is effected by the gospel, and THEN shall the end come.

Poimen wrote:In this context it is good. The leavening process typifies the gradual effect the leaven has on the dough, until the whole is leavened.

In the same way, the introduction of Kingdom power and life into the earth, though initially small, grows, has grown, and will continue to grow till the whole world knows and is effected by the gospel, and THEN shall the end come.

Well, it would seem that it would have both some good and bad connotations. Knowing that the passover was perpared with the removal of the old leaven of the pasted harvest. The unleavened bread.
Notice that the parable tells us that the woman hid the leaven, as in the custom before passover in a way for the children to search for the old leaven to be removed.

Why would Jesus tell us that she hid the leaven? Wouldn't the Jews and the disciples think of the custom of removal of the leaven in that she hid the leaven?

In context of the other parables the soil, "some fall on stony places, but other fell on good ground", The wheat and the tares are of both good and bad.
Now the parable of the mustard seed I see not bad connotation, but as the parable of the leaven can be seen as both.

Given reference as Paul said,
1 Corinthians 5
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


The kingdom of heaven is unleavened bread as in the passover meal in Christ Jesus.

To me the woman was trying to hid the old leaven in her heart. We are to remove (Purge out) that old leaven.

On the other hand if you wants to spiritualize the parable the leaven could be the Holy Spirit. But I find no scripture to refer to.