The Parable of the Hundredfold Harvest

For today I would like us to consider the Parable of the Hundredfold Harvest. “But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.” In first Century Palestine sevenfold meant a good year for a farmer, and tenfold meant true abundance. The words of Jesus…