Today's Gospel in Art - The Parable of the Sower

The Sower, Painted by Liz Lemon Swindle, 2013, Oil on Canvas, © Liz Lemon, Havenlight Publishing

Gospel of 24th July 2019 - Matthew 13:1-9

Jesus left the house and sat by the lakeside, but such large crowds gathered round him that he got into a boat and sat there. The people all stood on the beach, and he told them many things in parables.

He said, 'Imagine a sower going out to sow. As he sowed, some seeds fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Others fell on patches of rock where they found little soil and sprang up straight away, because there was no depth of earth; but as soon as the sun came up they were scorched and, not having any roots, they withered away. Others fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Others fell on rich soil and produced their crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Listen, anyone who has ears!'

Reflection

What I like about today's painting is that the sole focus of the artist is on the actual seeds… not on the fields, not on the sower. We just see the seeds being sown out of the hand, Christ's hand.

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