(20)The students said to Yeshua,
Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like.
He said to them,
It is like a mustard seed, the tiniest of seeds,26
but when it falls on prepared soil,
it produces a great plant
and becomes a shelter for the birds of heaven.

(21) Miryam27 said to Yeshua,
What are your students like?
He said,
They are like little children living in a field that is not theirs.
When the owners of the field come, they will say,
Give our field back to us.
The children take off their clothes in front of them
to give it back,
and they return their field to them.
So I say, if the owner of a house knows that a thief is coming,
he will be on guard before the thief arrives
and will not let the thief break into the house of his estate
and steal
As for you, be on guard against the world.
Arm yourselves with great strength,
or the robbers will find a way to reach you,
for the trouble you expect will come.
Let someone among you understand.
When the crop ripened,
the reaper came quickly with sickle in hand
and harvested it.
Whoever has ears to hear should hear.

22)Yeshua saw some babies nursing.
He said to his students,
These nursing babies are like those who enter the kingdom.
They said to him,
Then shall we enter the kingdom as babies?
Yeshua said to them,
When you make the two into one,
and when you make the inner like the outer
and the outer like the inner
and the upper like the lower,
and when you make male and female into a single one,
so that the male will not be male nor the female be female,
when you make eyes in place of an eye,
a hand in place of a hand,
a foot in place of a foot,
an image in place of an image,
then you will enter the kingdom.28

(23)Yeshua said,
I shall choose you as one from a thousand
and as two from ten thousand
and they will stand as a single one.

(24)His students said,
Show us the place where you are.
We must seek it.
He said to them, Whoever has ears should hear.
There is light within a person of light and it shines on the whole world.
If it does not shine it is dark.29

(25)Yeshua said.
Love your brother like your soul.
Protect that person like the pupil of your eye.

(26)Yeshua said,
You see the speck in your brother's eye

26. Or, "a mustard seed. It is the tiniest of seeds.
27. Mary.
28. This is a statement of human transformation. The transformation of genders also is treated in saying 114, but in somewhat different terms.
29.Instead of "it" in these clauses, we may also read "he."