Parable of the Growing Seed

The parable is as follows: And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.

Seventh-day Adventist writer George Knight suggests that it serves as a "correction provided for any ancient or modern disciples who might be feeling discouraged with the amount of fruitless labor they had extended toward those" who failed to hear the message of which the parable of the Sower spoke.

[3] Paul the Apostle describes the growth of the church in Corinth in a similar way: Unlike the parable of the Sower, the seed here seems to represent the Kingdom of God itself.

"[7] Roger Baxter in his Meditations writes, "Christ our Lord is both the sower and the seed itself.

He wishes this divine grain to yield a harvest, not of temporal and corruptible, but of eternal and incorruptible, increase.

Christ of the Cornfield , Frank Dicksee
The sower as illustrated in Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg at the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace (12th century).
Illustration together with the preceding parable of the lamp under a bushel .