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History of the Papacy podcast. I can only think that the phrase three C is became proverbial,

as in, I don't give two hoots. You never say, I don't give 16 hoots.

It's always two hoots. I don't know what a hoot is, but there's two of them. So I'm wondering if

three seers, it was just an expression for maybe large yes or something. But it certainly

adds a deep demand.

You know, this parable of Jesus, it's like one of the shortest parables, right?

The spirit, what the kingdom of heaven is is like a woman who took three cias of flour and mixed them with leaven until they were all leaven.

That's the whole parable.

And yet with this connection to Genesis, we have maybe images of, you know,

the kingdom is maybe also about abundance and maybe about extreme hospitality. Is all of that

intended to be brought into this very, very short parable?

Yeah. brought into this very, very short parable. In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement.

From pastor and bestselling author Max Lucato comes the Max Lucado encouraging Word podcast.

With over 40 years of ministry and more than 145 million books sold in 50 languages.

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