The Parable of the Sower Explained

¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. ²⁰ But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. ²² Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. ²³ But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

Allegories - extended Metaphor

Comparison, A is B, Get the Main Point of the Story, Stories that cannot take place.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you^[b] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt;

You have cast out the ^[c]nations, and planted it.

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You prepared room for it,

And caused it to take deep root,

And it filled the land.

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The hills were covered with its shadow,

And the ^[d]mighty cedars with its boughs.

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She sent out her boughs to ^[e]the Sea,

And her branches to ^[f]the River.

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Why have You broken down her ^[g]hedges,

So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?

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The boar out of the woods uproots it,

And the wild beast of the field devours it.

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Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts;

Look down from heaven and see,

And visit this vine

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And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted,

And the branch that You made strong for Yourself.

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It is burned with fire, it is cut down;

They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

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Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,

Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.

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Then we will not turn back from You;

Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.