According to Luke, the parable appears to have been given during a preaching tour through the cities and villages of Galilee. Nothing in Luke or Mark demands a close chronological connection with the surrounding material. Luke's purposes apparently cause him to give secondary consideration to chronology in this case. There remains the equally conceivable possibility that this fundamental parable was given on more than one occasion. Exegetical Analysis Minor differences appear in the parallel accounts of the parable.
Greater variations appear in the interpretation.
For the most part, variants involve only insignificant grammatical or stylistic preferences on the part of the Evangelists. But as a result of an apparent confusion, all three synoptic writers identified the sown seed with the hearers. With the insertion of suievnai into vv. The Kingdom is now a present reality, which does not, however, produce uniform results in all hearers. But the harvest element must not be neglected.