Listen to Jesus if you want to live
Jesus teaches the crowd by the sea. He does what His parable is talking about. He scatters seed. The parable is really about the response to the Gospel. The seed is the same in each case, but the ground is different. There seem to be four responses, but in the end there are only two. Rejection of Jesus or growth.
The not understanding of the parable is part of the judgement on the hearers, as is seen in the Isaiah quote who was sent to preach so that the hearers wouldn't understand. The application Jesus gives us for the disciples and us is to listen to Him because if you have you get more. This is seen in practice as the disciples get an explanation of the parable. They have a little, they get more.
Jesus again shows us His superiority to what has gone before highlighting the longing of OT believers to hear what Jesus would have to say.
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