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Leonard Goffiné answers the question of "why the word of God is compared to seed," writing, "Because as good fruits spring from good seed, so do good works from the word of God; and as it is impossible for any soil not sown to produce good fruits, so neither can men produce the fruits of the Spirit without the seed of the divine Word." [7]
[1] In the Gospel of Mark: It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow. [2] In the Gospel of Luke:
'Sowing the Seed' (Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Hungary) Parable of the Sower (left) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, IrelandThe Parable of the Sower (sometimes called the Parable of the Soils) is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 13:1–23, Mark 4:1–20, Luke 8:4–15 and the extra-canonical Gospel of Thomas.
Numerous studies show that both birds and bees thrive when offered a variety of pollen, nectar, seed and fruit choices. It’s fine to mix huckleberries and raspberries, blueberries and Indian plum.
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The image of the grain of wheat dying in the earth in order to grow and bear a harvest can be seen also as a metaphor of Jesus' own death and burial in the tomb and his resurrection. [2] The Rev. William D. Oldland in his sermon "Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls into the Earth and Dies" said: This parable is used by Jesus to teach them three things.
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Vol. 1. London: J. M. Dent and Sons. p. 180. Robert Miller, German and Dutch versions of the legend of the wood of the Cross before Christ, diss Oxford 1992. Napier, Arthur Sampson (1894). History of the Holy Rood-tree: A Twelfth Century Version of the Cross Legend. London: For the Early English Text Society. p. 1. (Begins with Moses)