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Sea of Galilee



Sea of Galilee

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A field of mustard plants in Galilee. Jesus used the mustard seed in one of his parables to describe the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13:31). “The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field”. About 19% of all the wild plants in Israel are yellow flowers, but in autumn and winter most of the yellow fields are mustard, scattered in cultivated fields as small shrubs and not as trees with birds nesting in their branches, as in Jesus’ parable.

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