Here, perhaps, is where a couple of different interpretations of Jesus may have been stitched together. What is the purpose behind this? You proclaim the Kingdom, and then don’t tell people about it? And you do this on purpose? Probably not, because we are told that Jesus deliberately spoke in parables so that people would not understand. Are we to assume that we are automatically part of it? ![]() Nor are we told how we join, how we become God’s subjects. ![]() We are not told what we have to do, or if there is anything we should do to hasten, or at least abet the process. Or how the Kingdom of God has grown, or will grow. What we are not told, is how this has happened. More, like a seed, the Kingdom of God grows on its own. It’s like a seed, a mustard seed, that will grow to be a big, capacious shrub. But only to a degree, because what we are told is that the kingdom is growing. We are told, in a number of different ways, what the Kingdom of God is, or at least what it’s like. ![]() While the Sower is the medium, the real message is the Kingdom of God. Most of Chapter 4 is filled with parables in particular, the Parable of the Sower, which takes up well over half the chapter.
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