She recounted the parable of the sower of seeds.

The Parable of the Sower (Matt.

He waited a moment, as though seeking where to begin, and then said: "Hump, do you know the parable of the sower who went forth to sow?

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This is followed by the parable of the Sower of the Seeds, which Jesus tells them represent the Word of God.

In his "parable of the sower," Jesus taught that the "word of God" is known naturally because it is sown "in the heart" of everyone.

The phrase is based on the New Testament parable of the sower, says Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard professor of medieval Latin.

In the parable of the sower the thorns which choke the growing seed so making it barren are the 'worldly cares and the false glamour of wealth'(Matt.

Readers familiar with Ms. Butler's earlier books, like "Parable of the Sower" and "Blood Child," will recall that she never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers.

Listen to the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart.

The roots of this triad are possibly to be found in Jesus' parable of the Sower: the three scenes of unproductive soil represent "Satan" (birds eating the seed), shallow and unreceptive believers (corresponding to weak "flesh"?)

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin in the October 2004 General Conference interpreted the parable of the sower as teaching the doctrine of patience-enduring to the end-and reinterpreted the meaning of each of the fates of the seeds.

One interpretation is that it serves as a "correction provided for any ancient or modern disciples who might be feeling discouraged with the amount of fruitless labor they had extended toward those" who failed to hear the message of which the parable of the Sower spoke.

Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the LDS Church, suggested that the Parable of the Sower demonstrated the effects that are produced by the preaching of the word, and he believed that the parable was a direct allusion to the commencement/setting-up of the Kingdom in that age.