In the 13th chapter of Matthew, we find the parable of the sower. In this parable we find that some of the seed fell by the wayside, where birds carried it off. A portion fell in stony places ...

Pope Leo XIV uses Van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset’ to show how God’s Word is scattered freely — and how even fractured ground can ...

Pencz’s sower is captured at the moment of scattering seed. His sowing is generous: he carries a full bag of seed, while another sits on the ground behind him. He stands in the foreground.

In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; but only one ...

The parable of the Sower as told by Jesus cites the story of a farmer: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

One day, while going through it, I came across his interpretation of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, from which he teaches a lesson. His use of the parable significantly differs from the ...

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a ...