MARCH 26 CLASS LESSONS

This quiz will cover why Jesus taught with parables, and one the parables that Jesus taught to the people.

Covering Matthew 13

Teaching with Parables

Multiple Choice

What is a parable?

A parable is a story

A simple story used to illustrate and teach a spiritual truth or principle. A parable is based on comparing an ordinary object or event to a truth, and the underlying meaning or message of a parable is often hidden to listeners who are not spiritually prepared to receive it.

Jesus often taught with parables. www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/gs/parable

Multiple Choice

What is this person doing?

• sowing seeds

• sewing clothes

• feeding seagulls

• fishing

Sowing Seeds

The parable of sowing, to sow means to plant seeds.

Multiple Select

What kinds of soil did the sower’s seeds fall on?

• wayside

• stoney places

• ground with thorns

• good ground

What kinds of soil did the sower’s seeds fall on? (Trick question all of them)

• wayside is a path near fields, and it becomes hardened as people walk on it. The hardness of the wayside prevents seeds from taking root in the soil.

• stony places are rocky surfaces covered by a thin layer of soil. Though seeds can develop shallow roots, the rock that lies just below the surface prevents the roots from going deeper.

• ground with thorns is fertile soil, but the thorns crowd out the plants by depriving them of light, water, and needed nutrients.

• good ground is fertile soil with sufficient depth for healthy roots.

Multiple Choice

the Savior’s disciples asked Him why He taught in parables?

• He has to teach them like children

• they contain secrets messages to people who really understand him

• cause he liked them and thought others would like them too

• that parables revealed the mysteries or truths of the kingdom of heaven to those who were ready to receive them, while hiding the meaning from those who were spiritually unprepared

the saviour taught with parables because...

that parables revealed the mysteries or truths of the kingdom of heaven to those who were ready to receive them, while hiding the meaning from those who were spiritually unprepared

Multiple Choice

What did Jesus say prevented the people from seeing, hearing, and understanding the truths He taught?

• “this people’s heart is waxed gross”

• "they didn't like what he said"

• "this people's didn't like goats"

• "this people's were too busy crankin' nineties"

The phrase “this people’s heart is waxed gross” in verse 15.

means that the people’s hearts had become hard and insensitive.

Multiple Choice

According to verse 15, what blessings can we lose if we harden our hearts?

• then we will not understand what he is telling us.

• then we will not understand the word of God or be converted to the Savior and healed.

• then we will not understand why he is telling us.

• then we will not understand the recipe.

then we will not understand the word of God or be converted to the Savior and healed.

Consider what it means to be converted to the Savior and healed.

When you are converted you become changed and purified through His Atonement so that your beliefs, heart, and life are in harmony with Heavenly Father’s will and you are freed from the burden of sin.

​In Matthew 13:16–17, Jesus told His disciples that they were blessed because they had eyes to see and ears to hear.

Multiple Choice

What does the Savior mean "This is he which received seed by the way side."

• When any one hears the words but like them

• When you see it and hear it.

• When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.

• When any one get seed handing slyly to the side

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.

​In verse 19, the phrase “understandeth it not” may refer to a result of a hardened heart; and “the wicked one” can represent Satan and his servants. Ponder how the Savior’s teachings about the wayside might help you further understand the principle that if we harden our hearts, then we will not understand the word of God or be converted to the Savior and healed.

Multiple Choice

"But he that received the seed into stony places"

• "Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended."

• "Hard to grow anything in rocks, but not impossible.."

• "The rocks are good for the seed, and make it grow stronger than before."

• "look there is a TikTok about rocks"

Matthew 13:22 - Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

In these verses Jesus taught that the plants that grew in the stony places represent those who have a testimony that is not deeply rooted.

Multiple Choice

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. What are some examples of the cares of the world that can “choke the word”?

• horns and cars

• corn and trucks

• greed and temporal distractions

• clowns and chickens

What are some examples of the cares of the world that can “choke the word”?

Worldliness, greed, and temporal distractions are a few examples of cares that can “choke the word” and take us away from God.

Multiple Choice

"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." What does this mean?

• as we receive the word of God, understand it, and endure tribulations, persecutions, and temptations, we will become converted to the Savior.

• Someone will bring food

• Someone will bring drinks

• Someone forgot it was a pot luck

"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." What does this mean?

"as we receive the word of God, understand it, and endure tribulations, persecutions, and temptations, we will become converted to the Savior."

The main message of the parable is:

Good soil represents people who hear the message and live it in their lives. Some people have strong faith and remain dedicated to a Christian lifestyle, even when things are difficult.

A VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:I

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2014-01-0029-parable-of-the-sower?lang=eng

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