LESSON 56
         THE FIRST GREAT GROUP OF PARABLES (Part II)


                   THE PARABLE OF THE SEED
                         Mark 4:26-29


 1. How does the Kingdom increase? _________________________________
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 2. Explain "he knoweth not how," (vs 27). _________________________
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 3. Can "modern science" explain the reproduction of a seed? _______
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 4. Compare "the blade, then the ear, then the full grain," to the
    child of God? __________________________________________________
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 5. Compare this parable to 1 Cor. 3:6-9. __________________________
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                      THE PARABLE OF THE TARES
                          Matthew 13:24-30
 6. What did the man's enemy sow among the wheat? __________________
 7. When was it discovered that tares had been sown? _______________
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 8. What would be the problem of rooting out the tares? ____________
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 9. What advise was given? _________________________________________
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             THE PARABLES OF THE MUSTARD SEED AND LEAVEN
                   Matthew 13:31-35: Mark 4:30-34
10. What is said of the mustard seed? ______________________________


11. What is the meaning of this parable?  __________________________
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12. Explain the characteristics of leaven. _________________________
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13. Which prophecy does Matthew 13:35 fulfill? _____________________


                 THE PARABLE OF THE TARES EXPLAINED
                          Matthew 13:36-43


14. He who sowed the good seed is _________________________________.
15. The field is the ______________________________________________.
16. The good seed is the __________________________________________.
17. The tares are the _____________________________________________.
18. The enemy that sowed is the ___________________________________.
19. The harvest is the ____________________________________________.
20. The reapers are ___________________________________.
21. What popular "false doctrine" does this parable repudiate? _____
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                 PARABLES OF TREASURE, PEARL AND NET
                          Matthew 13:44-53


22. The parable of the treasure and the pearl teach the same lesson.
    Explain them. __________________________________________________
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23. The parable of the net is similar to the parable of the _______.
24. In the "furnace of fire," there shall be _______________________
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25. What is the meaning of the householder "bringing forth of his
    treasure things new and old"? _________________________________

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