The Sower and the Sifter

Mark 4:1-20 | The Path | Trent Hunter Jesus is a good teacher, right? Then why so many diverse responses to his teaching? Shouldn’t he be the most persuasive, most compelling, and most agreeable preacher ever? In Mark’s gospel we find a host of responses to Jesus. We find the same in our own day. We find the same in our own hearts! In Mark 4:1–20, Jesus takes up the task of explaining why the Word seems effective at times and ineffective at others. But this is no simple lesson. It’s a lesson that will shake up our own understanding of how the Word works/