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MATTHEW 13:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:2Matt 13:4
“And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;”
And he told them many things in parables, saying: a sower went out to sow. The parable of the sower is the first and most fundamental of the seven parables in the Parable Discourse. The sower who went out to sow is the one who scatters seed broadly — not selectively planting only in the best soil, but broadcasting the seed across the full range of terrain. The parable's subject is not merely agricultural but epistemological: what happens when the word of the kingdom meets different kinds of human hearts.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:3

When He had rebuked him that told Him of His mother and His brethren, He then did according to their request; He departed out of the house, having first corrected His brethren for their weak desire of vainglory; He then paid the honour due to His mother, as it is said, 'The same day Jesus went forth out of the house, and not down by the sea aide.

Chrysostom · 4th century

By the words, 'The same day,' he sufficiently shews that these things either followed immediately upon what had gone before, or that many things could not have intervened; unless indeed 'day' here after the Scripture manner signifies a period.

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 41

For not only the Lord’s words and actions, but His journeyings also, and the places in which He works His mighty works and preaches, are full of heavenly sacraments.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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