The Principle of Sowing🕊

¹³ Then he said to them, “If you don’t understand this parable, how will you understand any parable? ¹⁴ Let me explain: The farmer sows the Word as seed, ¹⁵ and what falls on the beaten path represents those who hear the Word, but immediately Satan appears and snatches it from their hearts. ¹⁶ The seed sown on gravel represents those who hear the Word and receive it joyfully, ¹⁷ but because their hearts fail to sink a deep root into the Word, they don’t endure for long. For when trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, they immediately wilt and fall away. ¹⁸ And the seed sown among thorns represents those who hear the Word, ¹⁹ but they allow the cares of this life and the seduction of wealth and the desires for other things to crowd out and choke the Word so that it produces nothing.

²⁰ “But the seed sown on good soil represents those who open their hearts to receive the Word and their lives bear good fruit—some yield a harvest of thirty, sixty, even one hundred times more than was sown!”🕊