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Parables: The Sower and the Seed

A farmer prepared his field for sowing by digging or plowing it so that the soil was loosened correctly to receive the seeds. Taking seeds from his seed-bag, the farmer would fling the seeds from a path in a circular motion, until the whole field had been planted. Jesus noted that there were narrow footpaths beside every field. Rocks would be thrown into the corners of the fields, and weeds and thorns would grow there. So Jesus explained that the footpaths were so hard no seed could sprout there, and the seeds that fell on the thin soil at the tops of the terraces or in the field’s corners might sprout, but they would not mature into grain that could be harvested. But, said Jesus, the seeds that fell into good soil sprouted a hundredfold.