In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of ... The fourth soil, the good soil as Jesus referred to this last listener, is someone ...

In his first general audience in Rome, Pope Leo XIV referred to Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sower at Sunset” and called it a ...

One of the most awesome aspects of Jesus’ preaching is His common use of parables — simple, everyday stories that carried ...

When we plant good seeds in our life, our heart hears, understands, and believes the Word of God and acts accordingly, The parable of the Sower as told by Jesus cites the story of a farmer ...

The parable of Jesus found in Matthew 13:1–23, Mark 4:1–20 and Luke 8:4–15 is the parable of the sower.

Two examples of this type of parable are the following similitudes of the Lost Coin and the Growing Seed. In the first ... a general principle (e.g. the good Samaritan illustrates love of neighbor ...

Leo referred to Christ’s Parable of the Sower, a story in the Gospel that speaks to the need to do good works. “Every word of the Gospel is like a seed sown in the soil of our lives,” he ...