In Matthew 13, a chapter full of parables, Jesus tells the parable of the Sower of the seed. It is a story of a farmer, scattering seed which fell upon four different types of soil; ...

The seed falling on good soil . . . produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. — Matthew 13:23. Philstar.com. ... Scattering seeds. The Philippine Star.