¹⁴ The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others.

Philip Preaches in Samaria

⁴ But the believers who were scattered preached the Good News about Jesus wherever they went.

¹⁹ The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message about the Kingdom and don’t understand it. Then the evil one comes and snatches away the seed that was planted in their hearts.

²³ For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. ²⁴ As the Scriptures say,

And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.

¹¹ “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word.

³⁷ Jesus replied, “The Son of Man^[a] is the farmer who plants the good seed.

³ “Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.

² Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them,

⁵ which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in heaven. You have had this expectation ever since you first heard the truth of the Good News.

⁶ This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.