The Parable of the Soils

Jesus stepped into a boat because the crowd pressed so close He had no room to speak.

From the water, He taught them about a farmer scattering seed. Some fell on the

hardened path where birds snatched it away before it could settle. Some landed on rocky

ground, sprouting fast but withering under the sun with no depth to sustain

it. Other seed fell among thorns that grew up and choked the life from it.

But some seed fell on good soil and multiplied thirty, sixty, even a hundred times

over. This wasn't just a farming lesson. Jesus was showing how hearts receive

His word. The path is the distracted heart where truth never takes hold.