Matthew 13:3

ἐν παραβολαῖς : this method of teaching was not peculiar to Jesus it was common among Easterns but His use of it was unique in felicity and in the importance of the lessons conveyed. bstract a priori definitions of the word serve little purpose; we learn best what a parable is, in the mouth of Jesus, by studying the parables He spoke. Thence we gather that to speak in parables means to use the familiar in nature or in human life (in the form of a narrative or otherwise) to embody unfamiliar truths of the spiritual world.

Matthew 13:3. ὁ σπείρων : either ὁ generic, or the Sower of my story. τοῦ σπείρειν : the infinitive of purpose with the genitive of article, very frequent in N. T. and in late Greek.