The Sower Parable

although “many times people didn’t understand why he did that” (Wright 25). For example, one of the first parables told in Matthew is “the parable of the sower, which is about a sower who was trying to plant seeds but some fell beside the path, some fell on the rocky soil and some on the thorns and some on good soil. He explained what happened to each set of seeds that fell, and thus the only ones that survived were the ones that fell into good soil” (Wright 25). This story makes sense if you truly think about how someone need to have good foundation to be able to develop into something. The Messiah was trying to tell the people that without faith in your religion one isn’t going to have a good outcome. After the parable “his disciples came and asked him why are you speaking

Although the Messiah wants for his follows to obey his law, the author of this gospel points out the two that he believed was the most important ones. And those are “the Lord your god, the lord is one: and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all understanding, and with all your strength. And the second one; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandments are greater than these” (Wright 93). As we can see these two commandments seem to make sense on why the messiah would want for his followers to think that these two are the most important once when looking at all of them. If a person was to follow these two rules for the rest of their lives they wouldn’t break the other commandments because they are focused on trying to treat everyone fairly and equally since that’s how they would want to be treated. Although following these two commandments might not be as simply as one would think even in the times of Jesus. It seems more than ever that in the world we live in today it would be