In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; but only one soil ...

Jesus once described the human heart with a simple farming picture in the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13). A farmer scatters seed, and some falls on the path, some ...

30 July, Proper 12: 1 Kings 3.5-12; Psalm 119.129-136; Romans 8.26-end; Matthew 13.31-33, 44-52 FIVE parables tell us what the Kingdom of heaven is like: namely, a seed, yeast, treasure, a merchant, ...

Matthew 13 tells of Jesus speaking to the multitude in parables and how in private he would explain the meanings of those parables to his Apostles. One of them asked Jesus why he always spoke to the ...