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You can read the pedantic discussion below, or go read a really good sermon about the sower parables, here.
Chapter 13 contains another of Jesus' major discourses, expounding on the Kingdom of God through a series of parables. He explains to his disciples why he uses parables -- those who are good soil, who are prepared to hear of the Kingdom, will understand.
But the disciples must be careful about making judgments about who hears and who does not -- about the wheat and the weeds. God will sort them out in the end, and the "weeds" may serve God's purpose.
Through a series of similes, Jesus gives more clues: the Kingdom of God can grow to great size from small seeds or yeast; or the Kingdom may be hidden and be discovered; or be like a fishnet, from which the good are retained and the bad discarded.
Jesus is sketching out a Kingdom very different from the royal nation of David, and the disciples may say they understand, but, like us, do not entirely comprehend what Jesus is saying.
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