Matthew 13:24

παρέθηκεν here and Matthew 13:31 only in this sense. Elsewhere of ‘setting meat before a guest’—the usual Homeric use of the word—Mark 6:41; Mark 8:6-7; Luke 11:6. Of committing a charge to a person, Luke 12:48; 2 Timothy 2:2. In mid. voice, of ‘proving’ by comparison, Acts 17:3. Here the word might be taken in a similar sense ‘made a similitude,’ παραβολήν regarded as cognate.

σπείραντι, not ‘which sowed,’ A.V. but when he sowed.