31 Bible Verses about Sowing Seeds
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and in sowing, part of the grain fell in the high-way, and the fowls light and peck'd them up:
a husbandman went out to sow his corn: and as he was sowing, some fell upon the beaten road, which was crush'd under foot, or devoured by the birds.
where other seed fell, denotes the man that heareth the word, and at first receives it with pleasure:
now the meaning of the parable is this: the seed sown signifies the word of God.
now he that furnishes seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall furnish and multiply what you sow, and increase the fruits of your liberality.
some fell upon very stony ground, which no sooner sprung up, but it wither'd away, for want of moisture:
but while the people slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.
but another part falling upon good soil, became fruitful, some grains yielding an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty.
Then he talk'd to them much in parables, and said, a sower went out to sow.
He propos'd another parable to them, which was this; the gospel-state is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took to sow in his field.
the field is the world: the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one:
another part fell upon stony places, where it had not much earth: and it soon sprung up, because the soil was shallow:
it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.
Again, he said, the state of the gospel is like that of the grain, which a man sows in his land:
however he takes his repose by night, or is employ'd by day, the grain shoots up and grows without his inspection.
if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?
but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred.
the enemy that sowed them is the devil: the harvest is the conclusion of the age: and the reapers are the angels.
upon this occasion, that saying is verified, "one soweth, and another reapeth."
some of the seed happened to fall by the wayside, which the birds light upon, and devoured.
Another parable he propos'd to them in these words. the state of the gospel in this world may be compar'd to a man who sowed good grain in his field:
as for those, who receive seed as among thorns: they are such as hear the word.
so the servants of the yeoman came and said, Sir, did not you sow your field with good grain: how comes it then to have tares?
