The farmer sows the word.
Cross References
Matthew 13:3And He told them many things in parables, saying, "A farmer went out to sow his seed.
Mark 4:13Then Jesus said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
Mark 4:15Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
Luke 1:2just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
Treasury of Scripture
The sower sows the word.
sower.
Mark 4:3
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Isaiah 32:20
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
Matthew 13:19,37
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. This is he which received seed by the way side…
the word.
Mark 2:2
And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
Colossians 1:5,6
For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; …
1 Peter 1:23-25
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever…