Parable of the Sower
Reading edition
JESUS taught many spiritual lessons by parables, that is, by stories about the common things people could understand.
One day as he sat by the sea of Galilee, he told the people the parable of the Sower. The sower cast some seed by the wayside, that is, along the edge of the field or road-side. Some seed fell upon stony ground, some among thorns, and some on good ground.
The people did not know what he meant till he explained the lesson to them.
The great sower is Jesus, but all Christians are sowers under him. The seed is the Word of God. People’s hearts are the four kinds of soil.