In another parable Jesus used the image of a farmer sowing his crops to explain how people respond to God’s word. The farmer sowed the seeds and they fell on different types of ground.

Recent discussions of Jesus' social class try to locate him ... He was close, however, to peasant society; all of the images in his parables and his aphorisms are firmly rooted in peasant society ...

Parables were a trademark method of teaching used by Jesus, drawn from the practice ... Beautifully crafted word pictures from ancient scriptures stand up to the relevance test, no matter in ...