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.

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