Because of the commemoration yesterday of Gregory of Nyssa, we did not hear the Parable of the Sower and the interpretation the disciples needed to understand it.[1] Matthew and Luke have it also from Mark.[2] It’s about the word sown along the path, upon rocky ground, and among thorns. The passage concludes, “But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”[3] The evangelist we know as Mark follows this with the Parable of the Lamp and the Parable of the Measure.
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