Again, the coming world civilization is like yeast that a woman takes and places in three measures of flour, until the whole loaf is leavened. Again, the coming world civilization is like a net cast into the sea, gathering fish of every kind that are sorted by the fishermen for many uses, good and bad. Commentary Culture is a grain of mustard seed germinating in the sensitivity of an individual or two. It becomes a tree, spreading branches full of blossoms of beauty and music of voices, strings, woodwinds, brass and organs. Trade is yeast, mixed with the flour of enterprise, rising to provide loaves of goods for global markets.
Civilization is a net, cast in the sea of humanity, yielding ideas, arts, sciences and progress.
On one of our journeys to Jerusalem we went through the land of Samaria, an alien land to my countrymen who have no dealing with Samaritans. From ancient times these people have cherished their own version of the Scriptures and their own religious traditions. While waiting for my disciples, I sat beside Jacob's well, and a woman came to draw water. The water I bring will spring up inside of you and become a fountain of everlasting life. Commentary Jesus shocked his disciples by loitering with this Samaritan woman.