“If you had just a grain of faith, you could say to this tree,” said Jesus, “‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’
and it would then obey and do exactly as you willed.”
Some people think that feats like this by faith can be fulfilled.
But Jesus did not want his words used so capriciously.
He was employing, as he often did, hyperbole
to make a point he knew demanded greater emphasis,
the sense of which, it seems to me, would be something like
this:
If you had faith no greater than a tiny mustard seed,
you’d find that God is able to work miracles indeed.
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