Jesus asked them, “Don’t you understand this story? How, then, will you understand any of the stories I use as illustrations?
I correct and discipline everyone I love. Take this seriously, and change the way you think and act.
Then Jesus said to them, “How foolish you are! You’re so slow to believe everything the prophets said!
Then he used stories as illustrations to tell them many things. He said, “Listen! A farmer went to plant seed.
“The farmer plants the word.