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The Gospel Is Powerful But Sharing It Is Hard Work

Matthew 13:33-35

He told them still another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about thirty kilograms of flour until it worked all through the dough.' Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: 'I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.' (NIVUK)

Yeast is often used in the Bible as a picture of sin or false doctrine because it so easily contaminates everything (1 Corinthians 5:6-7). But here, Jesus uses the little mould to represent the gospel. In the same way that yeast is ineffective if it stays away from the dough, so the gospel has no power unless it is mixed into the world. 30kg of flour is a large batch, but only 1% of yeast is required to make the bread rise. Jesus wanted His hearers to imagine the energy expended in kneading the yeast into it.