But is what you're saying that the transformation from the bottom up is, if you like, more evident or more radical in Jesus's choice of this particular plant? Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's what it is.

Yeah, yeah.

And then you go straight from that one into this parable of the yeast, this idea of the kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took.

And it says, and it mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.

You know, as ever with these kind of things, you think, what is a measure? And so that was the first thing I did was to try and work out what three measures looks like.

And apparently it's about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds, depending on whether you're old money or new money.

vignettes what do we have next we've had the mustard seed we've had the mixing of these and the baking what what comes next uh this treasure isn't it treasure then the pearl which i've heard this preached upon so many times with so many different allegorical meanings um but i'm wondering what themes of justice and like costliness are are there for us today