Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 — The Parable of the Sower (Ep.047), A. Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Verse 1.

That same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.

such loud crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it while all the people stood on the shore.

That must have been really interesting, eh? To be out on a lake in a boat because there's so many people.

The only way that he could do it.

So interesting.

Then he told them many things in parables, saying, a farmer went out to sow his seed.

And as he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

Okay, so there's many people listening, and Jesus speaks in parables.

Parables is difficult to explain what they are exactly, but They're like stories that explain deep truths.

It seems like it's a story that is sometimes hard to understand.

There's a lot of symbols or symbolism in the stories.

So Jesus uses stories and he often tells stories that talk about things that everyone can understand.

So here it's a farming related parable.

A farmer who sows his seed, who throws the seed onto the soil.

And he wants to grow things with the seed.

And he scatters the seed.

He throws the seed all over the place on the soil.

And some falls on the path and the birds come and eat it up.

Okay, verse 3.

Some fell on rocky places where it did not have much soil.

It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.

Okay, see, rocky places, lots of rock, not much soil, springs up quickly, it comes up, it grows up quickly, because the soil is shallow, it's not deep, it's shallow.

Verse 6, but when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

the sun is strong the plants can't handle the heat and they dry up because the soil is shallow they don't have root verse 7 other seed fell among thorns which grew up and choked the plants Okay, thorns.