comical picture that we fail to hear what He says. It’s as if we become mesmerized, wondering how that mulberry tree will do now that it’s been plopped down in the Mediterranean. But Jesus is more concerned with mustard seeds than with mulberry trees. Leon Morris has summed it up well: Jesus’ answer turns them from the thought of a less and more in faith to that of its genuineness. If there is real faith, then effects follow. It is not so much great faith in God that is required as faith in a great