produced no wheat, little wheat or much wheat, all according to the character and preparation of the soil.” (Broadus, 286) Criswell and Dummelow both agree the seeds are representing people’s faith. The different harvests are the different faiths. “There are those who receive the truth in the same way as the seed that falls on stony places. It grows for a awhile, then dies. There are those who start gloriously, who spring up at once, but then as quickly disappear.” (Criswell, 74) “The seed falling by the wayside” is an example of those that give their attention to business matters and worldly affairs rather than to spiritual truth. The seed in the thin, rocky soil represent those who were really religious and have it in them to believe, but the tire, and fall away. The seed in the thorns show the people who could surely “develop the highest spiritual gifts, but who fail because they deliberately attempt to serve two masters, God and mammon, which is impossible.” (Dummelow, 672) The soil that bears fruit shows the people who believe in Jesus and his messages, and “the people who bear fruit unto God.” (Criswell, 74; Dummelow, 673) “According to Matthew 13:38, the converted soul becomes himself a Word, a seed of the Kingdom. This is the method of Christ’s work, sowing the seed of the Kingdom in the society and age in which we live.”(Criswell, 74) “The story was meant to convey spiritual instruction, and not all were likely to understand it.” (Broadus, 286) Broadus, Criswell, Dummelow, and Hobbs all believe in that as an explanation to the last verse number nine.I feel that the authors were correct in their analysis that Jesus was telling the parable to teach a lesson. I feel that they should’ve spent more time explaining the lesson being taught, instead of talking about the seeds representing a person’s faith. I disagr...
