July 26, 2025 • 18 mins
The King Nobody Wanted narrates the intriguing tale of Jesus in a relatable, everyday language. Drawing from the timeless King James Version of the Bible, this podcast weaves a captivating narrative thats both genuine and compelling.
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Chapter seven of The King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford.
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter seven
Slow to Understanding. Not all the Pharisees treated Jesus as
an enemy. There was one of them named Simon, who
decided to have Jesus come to his house for dinner.
(00:22):
Perhaps Simon thought that the other Pharisees were too hard
on Jesus. Perhaps he thought that he might show Jesus
where he was wrong. Or perhaps he was just curious.
Jesus had become very well known, and many people called
him rabbi or teacher. It would be interesting to talk
with the famous rabbi all afternoon. Whatever the reason was,
(00:47):
Simon asked Jesus to come and have a meal with
him and his friends. While they were eating their dinner,
a woman stole in quietly through the open door. She
had not been invited Simon, and would never have dreamed
of inviting her into his house, for every one in
town gave her a bad name. She's not a good woman,
(01:08):
not a nice woman at all. People said they turned
their eyes away when they met her on the street.
Any other time, the woman would not have wanted to
come to Simon's home, for no one likes to be
stared at coldly and to be put out of the house.
But to day was different. Jesus was there. She brought
(01:29):
with her a box of ointment. Ointment was the gift
that Jewish people brought when they wanted to honor an
important person or some dear friend. Clutching her box of ointment,
the woman crept across the room to where Jesus was sitting.
She began to cry. The tears rolled down her cheeks
(01:49):
and dropped on jesus hot dusty feet. Then she wiped
his feet with her hair and kissed them. She opened
her precious box and began to rub his feet with
the soft white salve. No one spoke or moved. Simon
was angry and disappointed with Jesus. The other Pharisees were right,
(02:11):
after all, So this is the great new prophet sent
from God. He thought to himself. If Jesus were a prophet,
we shouldn't be looking at a scene like this. He
would know what kind of a woman that is who
is touching him. Why everybody knows how bad she is.
Jesus did not need to be told what Simon was thinking.
(02:33):
Still sitting there, while the woman clung to his feet.
Jesus spoke, Simon, I have something to say to you. Yes, Rabbi,
Simon replied, what is it. Let me tell you a story.
Jesus said. There was once a money lender who had
two men owing him money. One of them owed him
(02:54):
five hundred dollars, the other owed him fifty. Neither of
them had anything with which to pay him back, so
the money lender told them both to forget about the
debt that they didn't need to pay. Now tell me
which of those two men will love the money lender most.
Simon answered, why, I suppose the man who owed him
(03:17):
the most. That's right, Jesus replied, Now, Simon, he went on,
look at this woman. When I came to your house
to day, you didn't even give me any water to
wash the sand off my feet, though that is what
is done in friendly homes. But this woman has washed
my feet with her own tears and dried them with
(03:39):
the hair of her head. You have scarcely been polite
to me, but this woman has done nothing but kiss
my feet. You never thought of putting ordinary olive oil
on my head, but this woman has put precious ointment
on my feet. You think this woman is a great sinner,
Jesus continued, And so she is. She has done many
(04:02):
things that are wrong, but her sins have been forgiven.
I have brought her to a new life, and she
doesn't have to worry any more about the sins of
the past. That is why she loves me so much.
But of course, a person who hasn't had his sins
forgiven isn't going to know much about love. Jesus turned
(04:24):
away from Simon. He might have added a cold pharisee,
like you so sure that nothing is wrong with you,
is a great deal worse off than this poor sinful woman.
You have got all your sins still to worry about,
and you don't even know it. But Jesus did not
say it. He left Simon to think that out for himself. Instead,
(04:46):
he spoke to the woman, your sins are forgiven. The
other people in the room began to mutter to themselves.
There he goes, forgiving sins again. What right has he
to forgive anybody's sins? But Jesus paid no attention. He
spoke once more to the woman at his feet. Your
faith in me has saved you, he said, Everything is
(05:08):
all right. Now go in peace. That was the end
of the dinner party at Simon's house, But it was
not the end of the talk and gossip about the
kind of friends that Jesus made. Some thought he must
be bad himself because he had so much to do
with the people to whom even the Pharisees would not speak.
(05:29):
Everywhere he went there was the same complaint time and again.
Jesus tried to explain why he was more interested in
sinners than in any one else. Why the people that
Pharisees despised were the very people who needed his love
the most. What could be better than to save some
one from an evil life. Jesus told story after story
(05:54):
to show the Pharisees what he meant. One time, he said,
suppose a shepherd had a hundred sheep, and one sheep
strayed away from the others and got lost. Would he
not leave the other ninety nine and go after the
lost sheep until he found it? And when he did
find it, he would pick it up and carry it
(06:15):
joyfully home. Then he would go round and tell all
his friends and neighbors. He would say, rejoice with me,
for I have found my sheep that was lost. Or
suppose a woman had ten silver coins and dropped one
of them on the floor. Wouldn't she light a candle
and sweep the floor and look everywhere until she found it.
(06:38):
Then she would say to her friends and neighbors, rejoice
with me, for I have found the coin I had lost.
In the same way, Jesus said, God is more pleased
over one sinful person who stops sinning than over all
the others who think they have never sinned. The Pharisees
still did not get the point, so Jesus tried again
(07:02):
with another story. He said a certain man had two sons.
One day, the younger son said, father, give me my
share of the property which is coming to me. So
the father gave each of the sons his share. Then
the younger son packed up his belongings and went away
to a far country. There he spent all his money foolishly.
(07:26):
After his money was gone, this young man had nothing
left to live on. He went to work for a
farmer who sent him out to feed the pigs. He
was so hungry that he would have been glad to
eat the pig's food, but no one gave him anything.
Then one day he said to himself what a fool
(07:47):
I am. Why am I staying here? He thought of
how even the servants at home had plenty to eat
while he was starving to death. He said, I will
go back to my father and tell him that I
have sinned against him and against God. I will tell
him that I am not worthy to be his son,
and ask him to give me work as one of
(08:10):
his servants. So he went home, but before he reached
the house, his father saw him coming and ran out
to welcome him. The young man started to say, I
have sinned and I am not worthy to be your son,
but his father called out to a servant, bring the
best clothes in the house and shoes for my boy's feet.
(08:32):
Then kill the fattest calf we have, and get ready
to feast. My son is back and we are going
to celebrate. Meanwhile, the older brother was out in the field.
When he came home, he heard music and dancing in
the house. He asked a servant why they were having
a party. When he was told, he became very angry.
(08:54):
He would not even go in the house. When his
father came out to ask him to join the party,
the older brother said, all these years I have stayed
at home and helped you. I did everything you told
me to, and all that time you never once gave
me a party. But when my brother comes back from
spending your money, why nothing is too good for him?
(09:19):
But the father answered him kindly, son, he said, you
are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
It is right that we should celebrate and be happy,
for it is as if your brother had been dead,
and now he is alive again. He was lost, and
now he is found. The days went by, some days
(09:41):
were good and some were bad. Once in a while
Jesus would find somebody who seemed to understand him and
believe in him. Then again it would seem that he
was failing in what he was trying to do. The
time he healed the Roman officer's servant was one of
the good days. Jesus was just coming back to Copernium
(10:01):
after preaching out in the country when this officer approached him.
Although he was a Roman and the captain of a
company of Roman soldiers, this man was well liked in Capernaum,
for he had built the Jews a synagogue, and everyone
knew that he loved the Jewish people. He came to
Jesus and said, Lord, my servant is dying at home,
(10:25):
very sick and suffering greatly. Jesus replied to him, I
will come and heal him. But the officer shook his head. Lord,
he said, I am not worthy that you should come
into my house. Just speak the words standing here, and
that will heal my servant. You see, I have an
army under me. I say to a soldier, come here,
(10:48):
and he comes. I tell my servant to do something,
and he does it right away. You have that kind
of power too. You just have to say that my
servant shall be healed, and he will be healed. Jesus
was joyful when he heard these words. To those who
were standing around, he said, I tell you I have
(11:11):
not found among the Jewish people any one who believes
in me so much as this Roman does. And I
tell you this too, when you talk about the Kingdom
of God, you shouldn't think that God has no place
in it for any one except Jews. God is going
to bring people together from every country, everybody who has
(11:31):
faith like this officer's faith, and some of the Jews
may find themselves outside the kingdom looking in. Then he
turned to the officer and said, go back to your house.
You have had faith in me, and I will give
you what you ask. When the soldier went home, he
found that his servant had recovered from his illness while
(11:55):
Jesus was speaking. That was one of the good days
when Jesus fell a new believer. But a bad day
came when Jesus found that his oldest friend had begun
to lose faith in him. John the Baptist was not
sure any longer that Jesus was the Messiah, and John
was in trouble. He had preached against King Herod, the
(12:18):
son of the king who had died when Jesus was
a baby. Herod married another man's wife, and John the
Baptist said that this was a sin. Herod threw John
into jail. As John lay in his prison cell, day
after day, he began to wonder about Jesus. Had he
been wrong in thinking that Jesus was the Messiah. Jesus
(12:42):
did not seem to have done very much as yet,
the Romans were still in the country, the rich people
were as bad as they had always been, and the
poor were just as poor. At last, John could not
stand it any longer. When two of his followers visited
him in jail. He sent them to ask Jesus who
(13:02):
he really was ask him, said, John, are you or
are you not the Messiah. John's followers found Jesus busy
healing the sick. They drew him aside and told him
what John wanted to know. Are you the one who
was to come, they asked? Or must we look for
(13:22):
somebody else? So even John the Baptist had his doubts. John,
the man who said that he was not worthy to
baptize Jesus, the same John who once called Jesus the
Lamb of God. Jesus pointed to the crowd of people
whom he had been healing, and he said to John's disciples,
go back and tell John what you have seen and
(13:44):
heard here. Tell him I am doing what I can.
Tell him how the blind are getting back their sight.
Tell him too, how the lame are learning to walk,
and how the lepers are being cured. Tell him that
I am preaching to the poor. Tell him all about
what I am doing, and let him decide for himself
whether or not I am the Messiah. And tell him this,
(14:08):
blessed is any one who believes in me and takes
me just as I am Jesus never heard what John
thought of this message, for John did not live much longer.
One night, King Herod gave a birthday party, and a
pretty girl danced so well that the king offered to
give her anything she asked. The girl went to her
(14:30):
mother to find out what she ought to say. Her
mother hated John the Baptist because he had spoken the truth,
and so she told her daughter ask for the head
of John the Baptist to be brought in here on
a platter. The girl went to the king and asked
for John's head. The king was sorry then that he
(14:52):
had made that promise, for he was half afraid of John. However,
he had to keep his word, and so he sent
servants to the prison, and they cut off the head
of John the Baptist with the sword and brought it
back to the palace on a platter. When Jesus heard
what had happened, he felt very sad. He said, let
(15:14):
us go out to some quiet place and rest Awhile
things were not going very well. John the Baptist was dead,
and Herod might be planning to kill Jesus next. Some men,
in fact, came one day to warn him to get
out of Herod's kingdom, go and tell that fox. He
(15:34):
said that I am busy curing sick and conquering evil,
and neither Herod nor anybody else is going to stop
me until I have finished my work. But things were
going badly just the same. Jesus saw that there were
not many of the people who understood his message or
knew who he was. A few believed in him, but
(15:56):
others soon lost interest in him, if they ever cared
at all. Only once in a long while did he
see any results from all his work. He explained this
in one of his stories when he said a farmer
went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some
of the seed fell in the pathway, and people walked
(16:17):
on it, or the birds ate it up. Some fell
on rock, and this seed began to grow. But no
sooner had it sprung up than it died, because it
did not have deep roots. Some fell among thorn bushes,
and the thorns grew faster than the seed and choked
it out. But some of the seed fell on good ground,
(16:39):
and there it grew into a good harvest. When the
disciples were alone with him, they asked Jesus to tell
them what this story meant. He said that the seed
stood for the words that he spoke to them. Some
people heard him, but they soon forgot what he said.
That was like the seed falling on the pathway. Others
(17:01):
were very excited about what he said when they first
heard it, but when it was hard to do what
he told them, they soon gave up trying. That was
like the seed falling on a rock where there was
no soil or water to give it root. Then there
were some who cared more about the money and pleasure
than they cared about God. That was like the seed
(17:23):
being choked by thorns. But some people heard Jesus preach
and they believed him with good and honest hearts, and
they were faithful. That was when his preaching brought results,
And it was like the seed falling on the good,
rich earth. Unless people have faith in me, said Jesus,
(17:43):
they will never understand God. They will see the things
I do and never know what they are looking at.
They will listen to me and never know what they
are hearing. I can do nothing with them. But you,
my disciples, you have faith in me, you will understand everything.
Some day the disciples were going to be good ground
(18:06):
for the seed that Jesus sowed, end of chapter seven,
Chapter seven of The King Nobody Wanted by Norman F. Langford.
This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter seven
Slow to Understanding. Not all the Pharisees treated Jesus as
an enemy. There was one of them named Simon, who
decided to have Jesus come to his house for dinner.
(00:22):
Perhaps Simon thought that the other Pharisees were too hard
on Jesus. Perhaps he thought that he might show Jesus
where he was wrong. Or perhaps he was just curious.
Jesus had become very well known, and many people called
him rabbi or teacher. It would be interesting to talk
with the famous rabbi all afternoon. Whatever the reason was,
(00:47):
Simon asked Jesus to come and have a meal with
him and his friends. While they were eating their dinner,
a woman stole in quietly through the open door. She
had not been invited Simon, and would never have dreamed
of inviting her into his house, for every one in
town gave her a bad name. She's not a good woman,
(01:08):
not a nice woman at all. People said they turned
their eyes away when they met her on the street.
Any other time, the woman would not have wanted to
come to Simon's home, for no one likes to be
stared at coldly and to be put out of the house.
But to day was different. Jesus was there. She brought
(01:29):
with her a box of ointment. Ointment was the gift
that Jewish people brought when they wanted to honor an
important person or some dear friend. Clutching her box of ointment,
the woman crept across the room to where Jesus was sitting.
She began to cry. The tears rolled down her cheeks
(01:49):
and dropped on jesus hot dusty feet. Then she wiped
his feet with her hair and kissed them. She opened
her precious box and began to rub his feet with
the soft white salve. No one spoke or moved. Simon
was angry and disappointed with Jesus. The other Pharisees were right,
(02:11):
after all, So this is the great new prophet sent
from God. He thought to himself. If Jesus were a prophet,
we shouldn't be looking at a scene like this. He
would know what kind of a woman that is who
is touching him. Why everybody knows how bad she is.
Jesus did not need to be told what Simon was thinking.
(02:33):
Still sitting there, while the woman clung to his feet.
Jesus spoke, Simon, I have something to say to you. Yes, Rabbi,
Simon replied, what is it. Let me tell you a story.
Jesus said. There was once a money lender who had
two men owing him money. One of them owed him
(02:54):
five hundred dollars, the other owed him fifty. Neither of
them had anything with which to pay him back, so
the money lender told them both to forget about the
debt that they didn't need to pay. Now tell me
which of those two men will love the money lender most.
Simon answered, why, I suppose the man who owed him
(03:17):
the most. That's right, Jesus replied, Now, Simon, he went on,
look at this woman. When I came to your house
to day, you didn't even give me any water to
wash the sand off my feet, though that is what
is done in friendly homes. But this woman has washed
my feet with her own tears and dried them with
(03:39):
the hair of her head. You have scarcely been polite
to me, but this woman has done nothing but kiss
my feet. You never thought of putting ordinary olive oil
on my head, but this woman has put precious ointment
on my feet. You think this woman is a great sinner,
Jesus continued, And so she is. She has done many
(04:02):
things that are wrong, but her sins have been forgiven.
I have brought her to a new life, and she
doesn't have to worry any more about the sins of
the past. That is why she loves me so much.
But of course, a person who hasn't had his sins
forgiven isn't going to know much about love. Jesus turned
(04:24):
away from Simon. He might have added a cold pharisee,
like you so sure that nothing is wrong with you,
is a great deal worse off than this poor sinful woman.
You have got all your sins still to worry about,
and you don't even know it. But Jesus did not
say it. He left Simon to think that out for himself. Instead,
(04:46):
he spoke to the woman, your sins are forgiven. The
other people in the room began to mutter to themselves.
There he goes, forgiving sins again. What right has he
to forgive anybody's sins? But Jesus paid no attention. He
spoke once more to the woman at his feet. Your
faith in me has saved you, he said, Everything is
(05:08):
all right. Now go in peace. That was the end
of the dinner party at Simon's house, But it was
not the end of the talk and gossip about the
kind of friends that Jesus made. Some thought he must
be bad himself because he had so much to do
with the people to whom even the Pharisees would not speak.
(05:29):
Everywhere he went there was the same complaint time and again.
Jesus tried to explain why he was more interested in
sinners than in any one else. Why the people that
Pharisees despised were the very people who needed his love
the most. What could be better than to save some
one from an evil life. Jesus told story after story
(05:54):
to show the Pharisees what he meant. One time, he said,
suppose a shepherd had a hundred sheep, and one sheep
strayed away from the others and got lost. Would he
not leave the other ninety nine and go after the
lost sheep until he found it? And when he did
find it, he would pick it up and carry it
(06:15):
joyfully home. Then he would go round and tell all
his friends and neighbors. He would say, rejoice with me,
for I have found my sheep that was lost. Or
suppose a woman had ten silver coins and dropped one
of them on the floor. Wouldn't she light a candle
and sweep the floor and look everywhere until she found it.
(06:38):
Then she would say to her friends and neighbors, rejoice
with me, for I have found the coin I had lost.
In the same way, Jesus said, God is more pleased
over one sinful person who stops sinning than over all
the others who think they have never sinned. The Pharisees
still did not get the point, so Jesus tried again
(07:02):
with another story. He said a certain man had two sons.
One day, the younger son said, father, give me my
share of the property which is coming to me. So
the father gave each of the sons his share. Then
the younger son packed up his belongings and went away
to a far country. There he spent all his money foolishly.
(07:26):
After his money was gone, this young man had nothing
left to live on. He went to work for a
farmer who sent him out to feed the pigs. He
was so hungry that he would have been glad to
eat the pig's food, but no one gave him anything.
Then one day he said to himself what a fool
(07:47):
I am. Why am I staying here? He thought of
how even the servants at home had plenty to eat
while he was starving to death. He said, I will
go back to my father and tell him that I
have sinned against him and against God. I will tell
him that I am not worthy to be his son,
and ask him to give me work as one of
(08:10):
his servants. So he went home, but before he reached
the house, his father saw him coming and ran out
to welcome him. The young man started to say, I
have sinned and I am not worthy to be your son,
but his father called out to a servant, bring the
best clothes in the house and shoes for my boy's feet.
(08:32):
Then kill the fattest calf we have, and get ready
to feast. My son is back and we are going
to celebrate. Meanwhile, the older brother was out in the field.
When he came home, he heard music and dancing in
the house. He asked a servant why they were having
a party. When he was told, he became very angry.
(08:54):
He would not even go in the house. When his
father came out to ask him to join the party,
the older brother said, all these years I have stayed
at home and helped you. I did everything you told
me to, and all that time you never once gave
me a party. But when my brother comes back from
spending your money, why nothing is too good for him?
(09:19):
But the father answered him kindly, son, he said, you
are always with me, and everything I have is yours.
It is right that we should celebrate and be happy,
for it is as if your brother had been dead,
and now he is alive again. He was lost, and
now he is found. The days went by, some days
(09:41):
were good and some were bad. Once in a while
Jesus would find somebody who seemed to understand him and
believe in him. Then again it would seem that he
was failing in what he was trying to do. The
time he healed the Roman officer's servant was one of
the good days. Jesus was just coming back to Copernium
(10:01):
after preaching out in the country when this officer approached him.
Although he was a Roman and the captain of a
company of Roman soldiers, this man was well liked in Capernaum,
for he had built the Jews a synagogue, and everyone
knew that he loved the Jewish people. He came to
Jesus and said, Lord, my servant is dying at home,
(10:25):
very sick and suffering greatly. Jesus replied to him, I
will come and heal him. But the officer shook his head. Lord,
he said, I am not worthy that you should come
into my house. Just speak the words standing here, and
that will heal my servant. You see, I have an
army under me. I say to a soldier, come here,
(10:48):
and he comes. I tell my servant to do something,
and he does it right away. You have that kind
of power too. You just have to say that my
servant shall be healed, and he will be healed. Jesus
was joyful when he heard these words. To those who
were standing around, he said, I tell you I have
(11:11):
not found among the Jewish people any one who believes
in me so much as this Roman does. And I
tell you this too, when you talk about the Kingdom
of God, you shouldn't think that God has no place
in it for any one except Jews. God is going
to bring people together from every country, everybody who has
(11:31):
faith like this officer's faith, and some of the Jews
may find themselves outside the kingdom looking in. Then he
turned to the officer and said, go back to your house.
You have had faith in me, and I will give
you what you ask. When the soldier went home, he
found that his servant had recovered from his illness while
(11:55):
Jesus was speaking. That was one of the good days
when Jesus fell a new believer. But a bad day
came when Jesus found that his oldest friend had begun
to lose faith in him. John the Baptist was not
sure any longer that Jesus was the Messiah, and John
was in trouble. He had preached against King Herod, the
(12:18):
son of the king who had died when Jesus was
a baby. Herod married another man's wife, and John the
Baptist said that this was a sin. Herod threw John
into jail. As John lay in his prison cell, day
after day, he began to wonder about Jesus. Had he
been wrong in thinking that Jesus was the Messiah. Jesus
(12:42):
did not seem to have done very much as yet,
the Romans were still in the country, the rich people
were as bad as they had always been, and the
poor were just as poor. At last, John could not
stand it any longer. When two of his followers visited
him in jail. He sent them to ask Jesus who
(13:02):
he really was ask him, said, John, are you or
are you not the Messiah. John's followers found Jesus busy
healing the sick. They drew him aside and told him
what John wanted to know. Are you the one who
was to come, they asked? Or must we look for
(13:22):
somebody else? So even John the Baptist had his doubts. John,
the man who said that he was not worthy to
baptize Jesus, the same John who once called Jesus the
Lamb of God. Jesus pointed to the crowd of people
whom he had been healing, and he said to John's disciples,
go back and tell John what you have seen and
(13:44):
heard here. Tell him I am doing what I can.
Tell him how the blind are getting back their sight.
Tell him too, how the lame are learning to walk,
and how the lepers are being cured. Tell him that
I am preaching to the poor. Tell him all about
what I am doing, and let him decide for himself
whether or not I am the Messiah. And tell him this,
(14:08):
blessed is any one who believes in me and takes
me just as I am Jesus never heard what John
thought of this message, for John did not live much longer.
One night, King Herod gave a birthday party, and a
pretty girl danced so well that the king offered to
give her anything she asked. The girl went to her
(14:30):
mother to find out what she ought to say. Her
mother hated John the Baptist because he had spoken the truth,
and so she told her daughter ask for the head
of John the Baptist to be brought in here on
a platter. The girl went to the king and asked
for John's head. The king was sorry then that he
(14:52):
had made that promise, for he was half afraid of John. However,
he had to keep his word, and so he sent
servants to the prison, and they cut off the head
of John the Baptist with the sword and brought it
back to the palace on a platter. When Jesus heard
what had happened, he felt very sad. He said, let
(15:14):
us go out to some quiet place and rest Awhile
things were not going very well. John the Baptist was dead,
and Herod might be planning to kill Jesus next. Some men,
in fact, came one day to warn him to get
out of Herod's kingdom, go and tell that fox. He
(15:34):
said that I am busy curing sick and conquering evil,
and neither Herod nor anybody else is going to stop
me until I have finished my work. But things were
going badly just the same. Jesus saw that there were
not many of the people who understood his message or
knew who he was. A few believed in him, but
(15:56):
others soon lost interest in him, if they ever cared
at all. Only once in a long while did he
see any results from all his work. He explained this
in one of his stories when he said a farmer
went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some
of the seed fell in the pathway, and people walked
(16:17):
on it, or the birds ate it up. Some fell
on rock, and this seed began to grow. But no
sooner had it sprung up than it died, because it
did not have deep roots. Some fell among thorn bushes,
and the thorns grew faster than the seed and choked
it out. But some of the seed fell on good ground,
(16:39):
and there it grew into a good harvest. When the
disciples were alone with him, they asked Jesus to tell
them what this story meant. He said that the seed
stood for the words that he spoke to them. Some
people heard him, but they soon forgot what he said.
That was like the seed falling on the pathway. Others
(17:01):
were very excited about what he said when they first
heard it, but when it was hard to do what
he told them, they soon gave up trying. That was
like the seed falling on a rock where there was
no soil or water to give it root. Then there
were some who cared more about the money and pleasure
than they cared about God. That was like the seed
(17:23):
being choked by thorns. But some people heard Jesus preach
and they believed him with good and honest hearts, and
they were faithful. That was when his preaching brought results,
And it was like the seed falling on the good,
rich earth. Unless people have faith in me, said Jesus,
(17:43):
they will never understand God. They will see the things
I do and never know what they are looking at.
They will listen to me and never know what they
are hearing. I can do nothing with them. But you,
my disciples, you have faith in me, you will understand everything.
Some day the disciples were going to be good ground
(18:06):
for the seed that Jesus sowed, end of chapter seven,
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