In the First Century, Farmers (called Sowers in the Bible) had bird problems. They didn’t have farming equipment to spread seed, so it would be spread by hand. They would walk up and down rows, creating paths throughout the field, spreading the seed as they walked.
As you can imagine, the soil under these paths would become flattened and hardened. Sometimes, as the sower was throwing out their seed, some of the seed would fall on the paths between rows. This is when the birds showed up, fly down and snatch up the seed that fell on the path.
With that in mind, you can understand why birds that visited a sower’s field were not welcomed. Quite the opposite actually. Birds were a sower’s greatest adversary! Jesus uses this first-century struggle as the opening scene for His Parable of the Sower, which we're going to be studying over the next four weeks.
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