The Parable of the Sower

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Across
  1. 4. Choke out seed
  2. 8. Symbolized by fowls of the air
  3. 9. Number of types of ground in the parable
  4. 12. Ground that is uncultivated, trodden down
  5. 13. What plants need to grow in barren ground
  6. 17. The seedlings on stony ground had roots that were too ____
  7. 19. Jesus' people will have _____
  8. 20. Major city in region where Jesus spoke the parable of the sower
  9. 22. What the seed that fell upon rocks withered away from lack of
  10. 23. Weeds
  11. 25. Devoured seed on wayside ground
  12. 27. The seed on good ground sprang up and bare fruit an _____ (Luk. 8:8)
  13. 29. What needs prepared so that the seed of the Word can grow (7,7)
  14. 30. Result of good ground
  15. 31. The process of planting the seed
  16. 33. What the types of ground represent
Down
  1. 1. What Jesus spoke in so only his disciples would understand
  2. 2. The sower
  3. 3. The plants on thorny ground were ___ (Luk. 8:7)
  4. 5. Wayside ground remains ___
  5. 6. God's people are able to rise above the things of the world and gain ____
  6. 7. "...the sun of righteousness arise with ___ in his wings" (Mal.4)
  7. 9. Group of people who worked together to raise crops
  8. 10. Stony ground cannot handle ______
  9. 11. Watering crops in dry ground
  10. 14. Better absorbed when soil is cultivated well
  11. 15. __________ went forth to sow
  12. 16. Heat causes plants in stony ground to _____ (Luk. 8:6)
  13. 18. What the seed in the parable represents (4,2,3)
  14. 21. What makes good ground good
  15. 24. Gives plants energy
  16. 26. Symbol of Jesus (Mal.4)
  17. 28. Those whom Jesus called to follow him
  18. 32. A Biblical symbol for the Word