What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce,

and in today's episode, we're going to be talking about why Jesus spoke in parables. I think this

is going to be an amazing episode. I mean, we see Jesus use parables as a form of teaching, a prominent

form of teaching. And so we're going to talk about it here. We're just going to be diving into Mark chapter 4 and kind of going through a breakdown of what

this scripture is, why Jesus goes speaks in parables.

It's going to be awesome.

Before we get into it, guys, check out Moses.

He's got his little hot dog costume on.

I saw it at the pet store today when I was getting some food.

I think it's awesome. So yeah, anyways, let's get into Mark chapter four. All right. So here's the context of what's

going on here. Jesus Christ is now, he's been performing great miracles so much so that he would

have the disciples have a boat ready for him in case he

needed to escape because the crowds were getting so big so jesus was becoming popular by by word of

mouth and now jesus is about to have like is about to have his big first almost like a first

speech almost like a first big engagement, like an inauguration speech here.

And Jesus comes amongst this crowd. A big crowd of people came to see Jesus. People are coming

to get healed, probably see miracles. They want to hear Jesus. And it says, and when he was alone,

sorry, excuse me, let me go back up. Mark 4, verse 1 says that he began to teach beside the sea in a very large crowd

gathered around him so he got into a boat there were so many people coming amongst jesus he

had to get into a boat and he says listen think about this jesus's first big speech ever

imagine jesus is going on campaign to become the next president this is his first big rally and this is what

jesus says behold a sower went out to sow and as he sowed some seed and as he sowed some seed fell along the path

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