2001 Matthew lesson 15

THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER

Matthew 13:1-23
Key Verse 13:23

I. THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER (1-9)

1. Where was Jesus preaching (1,2)? What was his teaching device (3a)? (Ps 78:2)

2. What parable did Jesus tell them (3b)? Where did some seed fall (4a)? Why was
the seed fallen along the path eaten up by the birds (4a)?

3. What advantage did the seed fallen on rocky places take (5)? What is the
function of the sun to plants? Why were the plants on the rocky places scorched
(6)?

4. Why was the seed fallen among thorns choked (7)? How many times did the
seed fallen on good soil produce a crop (8)?

5. What did Jesus say after telling this parable (9)? What does ‘he who has ears’
refer to? What attitude is needed when one hears Jesus’ word?

II. INTERPRETATION OF THE PARABLE (10-23)

6. What did the disciples ask Jesus and why (10)? What privilege had they been
given (11)?

7. What different result comes to those who have desire and to those who do not
have (12)?

8. Why did Jesus speak to the people in parables (13)? What prophecy was fulfilled
in them (14,15)? Why could not the people understand Jesus’ word (15)?

9. Why were the disciples blessed (16,17)? What did they see and hear (17b)?

10. What kind of person is the one who has heart like the path (19)? Why does not
he have no word in his heart?

11. What does it mean to be like rocky soil (20,21)? What is the critical weak point of
rocky soil people?

12. What does it mean to be like thorny soil (22)? What are the thorns mean (22b)?
How do they prevent the plant from being fruitful?

13. Who is the good-soil person (23)? How many times does he produce a crop?
What does “to understand the word” mean? What should we do in order to be the
good-soil people?