Jesus explains to us, His disciples, that the field is the world. Jesus sows good into the world. The devil sows evil into the world.

What sprouts up are those who are righteous and those who are law-breakers.

The Bible teaches that all have broken the law, that there is none righteous, not one.

The only righteous one is Jesus Himself. Without Christ in us, we are a lawless one.

1 John 3:9 says that the one who has God’s seed in him, who has been born of God, cannot keep on sinning.

A seed grows up after its own kind. An apple seed produces an apple tree.

What seed has been planted in you?

Since Jesus tells us that the field is the world in the parable of the weeds, I look at the field as the world in other parables as well. Just after Jesus explains that the field is the world in the parable of the weeds, He then tells the parable of the treasure hidden in the field.

I see us as the treasure in the field. Jesus buys the field, selling all He has to get it. We’re His treasured possession, as Scripture tells us. I know other people say that Jesus is the treasure, but I don’t know what it would mean for Jesus to be covered up in the field and for us to buy the field.

We do know that God so loved the whole world that He sent His Son and that Jesus died as a propitiation for the sins of the whole world and came as Savior of the world. (That sentence quoted from three Bible verses. 2 Corinthians 5:15 says that Jesus died for all.) He bought the whole field.

I do see the pearl of great price as Jesus and we sell all to get Him. Give it all up. He’s worth more than you could possibly give.