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Jesus said:

Listen—a man came out to sow seeds.

He took handfuls and cast the seeds.

Some seeds fell upon the road;

the birds came and ate those.

Other seeds fell onto rocks,

and those did not send roots into the earth

nor did they send shafts rising into the sky.

And some seeds fell into thorns,

which choked the seeds,

and the worms ate them.

And other seeds fell upon good earth,

and those gave fruit up to the sky.

And the sower got sixty times yield from some

and one hundred-twenty times yield from others.

Meditation

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all contain this parable, with the Jesus of Mark later explaining the parable to his disciples: “The sower sows the word.” This is the understanding that has come down to us through Christian tradition.

What if, however, the sower sows fire, as in the following saying . . .