Two Parables:
The Sower and the Grounds
The Sower and the Tares
Sower: One who scatters seed to grow and be harvested
1. In the parable (Matthew 13:3-9), what kind of ground did the seed fall on?
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Which are profitable?
2. In the interpretation (Matthew 13:18-23), what do the kinds of ground represent?
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What does the seed represent?
Does the sower have any responsibility concerning the ground? Explain.
Who is the sower?
Why does some good ground yield more than the other good ground?
3. In the parable (Matthew 13:24-30), there are:
How many sowers?
How many fields?
How many harvest?
4. In the interpretation (Matthew 13:36-43), who are the sowers?
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What is the field?
What did they sow?
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5. What primary truth does this parable relate to you?
Memory Work: 1 Peter 1:23 – Born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and abides forever.