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Monologue: The parable of the sower – Peter’s defence

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23

It’s all very well for you to laugh at us disciples, but would you have been any better
at understanding if you were hearing one of the tales he told for the very first time?
I know you think we were a bit thick in the head – having to ask him to explain the
meaning of the story to us – but we didn’t have your hindsight. That story was only
minutes old, not aged by two thousand years of interpretation. We didn’t get the
chance to get bored with it, or to say, ‘Oh no! Not that one again!’
And none of us were farmers either. Not proper ones...

10 July 2011, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23, momologue,
drama, parable, sower, seed, Peter, questions, explanations, mystery, meanings.
 
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