An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parable Of The Sower

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Once again, Matthew, Mark and Luke don’t invite John to the party and keep a parable between the three of them. Jesus tells a story to the multitude but only offers an explanation of it to the Apostles when most of the audience have gone away. Mark 4:1-20, A seed sower casts seeds around. Some seed falls on stony ground and rots. Other seed gets eaten by birds and other creatures, but some seed lands in the soil and grows into plants and crops. This is effectively what happened in agriculture before Jethro Tull (the inventor, not the singer) created the seed-drill and farming starting to get more organized and mechanized. Jesus explains the parable to the Twelve, a rare gathering of all the Apostles. He sees most people as having a chance to hear his message but not getting it at all or properly. Jesus explains that he is the sower, (Jesus and God). The seeds are his message of salvation. The ground the seed falls on is us, so we either get the message fully, only partly get it or reject it completely. Jesus only cares for those seeds that start to grow properly (the followers who believe him). The problem is that the Apostles don’t get the parable any more than the rest of the audience. What they learn to understand is the explanation footnotes Jesus only offer them. Maybe if Jesus explained his story to everyone, more people would follow him. The sower being God is a poor example too. Why would he waste half his seeds on stony ground rather than getting his message through to everyone? Farmers obviously have bad crops, but Jesus / God are supposed to be all powerful and all knowing. Satan gets all the loose seeds or the crops grow among thorns that ensnare badly rooted seeds, except for those that grow properly. The parable and explanation are very similar in Matthew 13:1-23, and in Luke 8:4-15. The only difference is that while in Mark and Matthew, Jesus talks to the crowd gathered on a beach while speaking from a boat just offshore on the Sea of Galilee, in Luke he speaks to everyone on land just outside the town. He still waits for everyone to leave before showing the Apostles what he was really talking about. Youtube Jethro Tull – Aqualung Arthur Chappell