The first part of the parable draws attention to the sower and to the seed, a reality in rural Palestine familiar to Jesus’ original audience composed mostly of peasant farmers. If the sower ...

Jesus has established the foundation of his new family: listening to God’s word and doing his will (Mk 3:34). Now, he tells the parable of the Sower to those “inside” his family—his disciples—to ...

social media users have called back to Parable of the Sower — which takes an excerpt from the Bible’s story of the same name, where Jesus tells of a farmer who plants seeds in different types ...

There are two ways to consider the parable in today’s Gospel reading. The first is to see the sowing of the seed, or the ...

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And when he was alone, those around him with the Twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, 'To you has been ...

You are probably familiar with the story of Jesus about the sower who scatters his seed on various soils ... It is known as the parable of the weeds. In it, Jesus reveals another secret about ...

In his parable of the sower, our Lord described four kinds of ground upon which the seed fell and said that only on the good ground did it bear enduring fruit. In another parable he spoke of the ...