Matthew 13:3

First Nations Version

Here is one of the many stories he told them: “Listen!” he said. “A seed planter went to plant some seeds and began to scatter them about on the ground.

Cross References

Mark 4:13

“If you do not understand this story, then how will you understand any of my stories?” he answered.

Mark 4:33

So Creator Sets Free (Jesus) taught the people with many stories like these. He would tell them as much as they were able to hear.

Matthew 13:53

When Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was through telling his stories, he traveled to his boyhood home of Seed Planter Village (Nazareth).

Mark 12:12

The spiritual leaders wanted to take him prisoner right then and there, for they knew the story was about them. But they were afraid of what the people might do, so they left him and went away.

John 16:25

“I have told you truths from the spirit-world above, using earthly stories. The time is coming when I will not have to use stories but will tell you plainly about the Father. When that time comes, you will not need me to ask the Father for you, because you will ask him yourself.

Luke 12:41

Hearing this, Stands on the Rock (Peter) said to him, “Wisdomkeeper, is this story for us, or for all people?”

Luke 8:10

He answered them, “To you the honor has been given to understand the mysterious ways of Creator’s good road. This honor is not given to those who are not ready for it. I speak to them in stories because ‘even though they have eyes to see, they do not see, and even though they have ears to hear, they fail to understand.’

Mark 12:1

Once again Creator Sets Free (Jesus) began to speak to them using stories:

Mark 3:23

So Creator Sets Free (Jesus) gathered them around himself and spoke to them with wise sayings such as these: “How can Accuser (Satan), that evil trickster, force out evil spirits? Can he defeat himself?

Matthew 24:32

“Listen to this fig tree and hear what it is saying to you: when its branches get soft and leaves appear, you know that summer will soon be here.

Matthew 22:1

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) continued to speak to them using stories such as this one:

Matthew 13:4

“Some seeds fell on the village pathway, and the winged ones pecked at the seeds and ate them all.