Digital Portfolio 2: The Mustard weed

According to Pliny the Elder, a naturalist during the time of Jesus, the mustard plant was a weed that grew wild, and once it grows it is scarcely possible to get rid of it. Jesus compared the Kingdom of God to a mustard seed. Jesus' audience the peasant farmers hated mustard plants; they ruined their crops and only source of income. Jesus was saying that the Kingdom of God would destroy the farming way of life. It would be dangerous to their way of life, something to be combated. The Kingdom of God was going to takeover the peasants' lives in revolt to the social structure of the time, which was peasant farmers working for a small upper class who took the majority of the wealth.