Jesus Parables

Parable 2

“Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

“Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?

The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed sown along the path. As soon as they hear the word, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed sown along the path. As soon as they hear the word, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Some people are like the seed sown on rocky soil, they hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Some people are like the seed sown on rocky soil, they hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Some people are like the seed sown among thorns, they hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Some people are like the seed sown among thorns, they hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Some people are like the seed sown on good soil, they hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown. Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.

If anyone has ears to hear let them hear

This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.

As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.

How else can I explain the kingdom of God? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade. I think that‘s enough parables for today.