Jesus named the parable of the sower. So the parable is about himself as a teacher, the farmer who sowed the word. Farmers, of course, know where they are throwing their seed. It’s valuable! So the point is that Jesus in his teaching is making it available to everyone, to people of all sorts of different soils. In his audience that day, there were four sorts of people: Pharisees unready to learn anything from Jesus, as hard as the roadside where the seed just lay where the birds could eat it; the fickly crowd who came for the miracles and the excitement, but as soon as trouble came, they were gone, like the seed on stony ground where roots could not grow; his family, who loved him, but only according to the cares and concerns of this passing world, like seed that fell among weeds; and finally the disciples, good soil where the seed would bear fruit in due time. The Parable of the Sower reveals that Jesus makes a free offer of the Gospel to all. The good soil is marked by perseverance, roots, and fruitfulness.
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Bill Edgar has been the pastor of the Broomall Reformed Presbyterian Church since 1981 and a teacher of mathematics at East High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania since 1980. He was graduated from Swarthmore College in 1968, attended the Reformed Presbyterian Theological...
