Matthew 13: 1-2 Analysis

When crowds are large, it gets loud and harder to hear, but when Jesus is the speaker, people become silent and it’s effortless to hear, even still they do not listen to the wisdom of God. “Though hearing they do not hear or understand.” Matthew and mark are parables that are common with each other in the Gospels. They talk about Jesus in a large crowds and how people will not listen to Jesus even with silence. God put these parables out for us, so that we could understand his spiritual lessons through his stories in the bible. Mark starts off with Jesus getting in a boat to go out onto a lake, because the crowds around were too large for him to stand in them. People probably ask why Jesus couldn’t just fly or speak really loud. But the reason …show more content…
But there are two differences with Matthew 13: 1-23 compared to Mark 4: 1-20. The first difference is that Matthew as we can see is a longer parable/verse. This is because God had given the disciples a poem. It reads; “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal …show more content…
These seeds can bring health and goodness to people that need it. Nowadays farmers use chemicals and GMO’s in our seeds to grow the plants that we eat. Its evil and it’s the first soil that is talked about in the parables. This is something that we all need to change and spread out our good seeds and our faith to change this.

The last difference I noticed is that after Jesus had told his parable he came back to shore and in Mark the disciples and others came around and asked “Why do you speak to these people in parables.” But in Matthew it was only the disciples no people. This caught my eye because if people came up to Jesus asking why he was speaking, then why didn’t they in Mark? I can understand why the people were asking because the parables are confusing in a way. Also, it does sound directed towards a specific group rather than all people. I can’t really understand why the disciples were asking Jesus why he was telling the people. This bewilders me because they should understand that people need to hear God and his parables. So, it should have been easy for them to understand that people needed to see this with their eyes and hear with their ears so that they can give with their heart God’s