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Who Hath Ears to Hear

Parable riddles, a sower’s seeds in four kinds of ground, a race to diagnose real-life hearts, and a pearl worth everything

  • ⭐ Valiant 9–11
  • Week 12
  • 📅 Sunday, March 21, 2027
🤔 Forehead Guess🏆 Showdown
💡 The big idea

Jesus taught in parables so that people with ready hearts would understand, and I can make my heart good ground where His word grows.

I can hear God’s word with an honest and good heart, keep it, and let my testimony of Jesus Christ grow with patience.

Study it yourself firstRead Matthew 13; Luke 8; 13 in Gospel LibraryCome, Follow Me manualOpen this week (Matthew 13; Luke 8; 13)
Know the chapters

Matthew 13 is the Savior’s great chapter of parables: short stories about seeds, weeds, bread dough, buried treasure, a pearl and a fishing net that teach about the kingdom of heaven. So many people came to the Sea of Galilee that He climbed into a boat and taught the crowd on the shore. When the disciples asked why He spoke in parables, He explained that the stories reveal truth to people who are ready and willing to hear, while hearts that are closed miss it (13:10–17). “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear” (13:9) is an invitation, not a riddle to exclude anyone.

The parable of the sower (Matthew 13:3–23; Luke 8:4–15) is the one Jesus explained Himself. The seed is the word of God, and the ground is the heart. By the wayside, the word isn’t understood and the wicked one snatches it away. On stony ground, it springs up with joy but has no root, so it withers when trouble or persecution comes. Among thorns, it is choked by the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches. On good ground, it is heard, understood and kept, and it bears fruit “with patience” (Luke 8:15). The manual invites us to ask what we can do to make our hearts good ground: we can soften the path, dig out rocks and pull thorns. Alma 32:28–43 in the Book of Mormon takes the same seed idea further, teaching how to nourish the word until it becomes a tree of life.

The other parables stack up beautifully for nine- to eleven-year-olds. The mustard seed and the leaven (13:31–33) show that God’s kingdom, and a testimony, can start tiny and grow huge. The treasure in a field and the pearl of great price (13:44–46) show that the gospel is worth giving up everything else for. The wheat and tares (13:24–30, 36–43) teach that good and evil grow side by side until the harvest; the Lord gave more insight on it to Joseph Smith (Doctrine and Covenants 86). Luke 13 adds a woman bent over for eighteen years whom Jesus lifted and made straight on the Sabbath (13:11–13), and His invitation to strive to enter the strait gate (13:24).

This age can handle diagnosis. Instead of just naming the four soils, let them read real-life situations and decide what kind of ground they are, and what would fix it. Ask them to be honest about their own ground without shaming anyone. Everyone has some path, rocks and thorns; the good news is that Jesus Christ helps us change our hearts through repentance, prayer, scripture study and the sacrament.

Only have 5 minutes?

Read Matthew 13:1–23 and Luke 8:15. Do the Parable Riddles hook out loud, let Teach Mode run the Sower drama, teach the Luke 8:15 motions, and play Forehead Guess. No cards? Tap “I brought nothing” and Soil Sort becomes a Four Corners race.

What to bring5 items

Tick what you have. Forgot something? Every step that needs a supply has a no-supplies version in the plan below.

Before class

  1. Make 4 soil cards: WAYSIDE · STONY GROUND · THORNS · GOOD GROUND.
  2. Make 8 scenario cards (they’re also listed in the Soil Sort step): the shoelace kid, the laughed-at talk, the teased new member, the week-one quitter, the one-more-video kid, the newest-phone kid, the lunch-table helper, the kid who asked and kept trying.
  3. On the board, draw four quick patches of ground in a row: a path, rocks, thorns, rich soil.
  4. Add your kids’ names in the My Class tab so you can hand out story parts with one tap. Give the Disciples’ question (Matthew 13:10) to a confident reader.
  5. Mark Matthew 13:18–23 and Luke 8:15 in your scriptures so you can find them fast.

If your class is wild

  • Make “Ears to hear!” your freeze call: everyone stops and cups both hands behind their ears.
  • In the drama, everyone is a Seed. Being snatched by Birds, scorched by the Sun or choked by Thorns keeps every kid moving.
  • Thorns “choke” with wiggly fingers around the Seeds, never touching necks.
  • In Soil Sort, only one runner per team at the soil cards. Everyone else reads and debates.
  • Give a quiet or older kid the job of Scorekeeper for the whole lesson. Responsibility calms a lot of wiggles.

The 25-minute plan25 min + bonus

Bonus steps are for when you have extra time. Steps that mention Teach Mode, the Sound Board or other class games refer to the Gospel Sparks app; on the web you can play Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown from this page.

1. Hook

Parable Riddles

2 min

Guessing riddles about ordinary things primes kids to look for hidden meanings in Jesus’s parables.

  1. SAY“I’m going to describe three ordinary things from Matthew 13. First to guess each one scores for their side of the room.”
  2. Riddle 1: “I’m smaller than a crumb, but plant me and I grow into a tree where birds rest in the branches.” (A mustard seed.) Riddle 2: “You can’t see me once I’m mixed into the dough, but I make the whole loaf rise.” (Leaven, or yeast.) Riddle 3: “A merchant sold everything he owned just to buy me.” (A pearl.)
  3. SAY“Jesus hid heavenly truths inside ordinary things like these, and He told the crowd, ‘Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.’ His disciples even asked Him why He taught this way. Let’s find out if you have ears to hear.”
🌪️ Guessers must raise a hand; blurting passes the guess to the other side.

Class screen: 🧩 Riddle time! What ordinary thing am I? · Matthew 13

2. Story

Story Drama: The Sower and the Four Grounds

6 min

Every kid becomes a seed and lives out what happens on each kind of ground, then hears Jesus explain it.

  1. Hand out roles (tap Roles in Teach Mode). Everyone who isn’t the Sower, Birds, Sun, Thorns or Disciples is a Seed.
  2. Point out four patches in the room (path, rocks, thorns, good ground). Spread the Seeds so every patch has someone.
  3. Read each scene aloud and pause for the action cue. You read Jesus’s words; the Disciples read their question.
  4. After scene 8, ask: “Which ground was it hardest to be in? Why?” and “Could a patch of ground ever change? How?”
🌪️ Call “Ears to hear!” to freeze the whole field between scenes.

Class screen: 🎭 Story Drama: The Sower and the Four Grounds · Matthew 13:1–23 · Everyone else: you’re a Seed!

3. Wiggle break

Parable Poses

2 min

Kids act out five parables at speed, burning energy and reviewing the chapter.

  1. Teach the poses: “Mustard seed!” = curl up tiny, then grow into a tree with branches wide · “Leaven!” = puff up slowly like rising bread · “Treasure!” = dig fast, then hug the treasure · “Pearl!” = hold up a tiny pearl and gasp · “Net!” = cast a net and haul it in · “Tares!” = freeze like a scraggly weed.
  2. Call them slowly, then faster and mixed up.
  3. No one is out; the goal is for the whole class to move in perfect sync.
  4. Let a kid lead the last round.
🌪️ End on “Mustard seed!” curled up tiny and hold it for five silent seconds.

Class screen: 🌳 Mustard seed! Leaven! Treasure! Pearl! Net!

4. Scripture

Scripture Spotlight: Luke 8:15

3 min

Comparing Matthew’s and Luke’s descriptions of good ground shows what makes a heart ready.

  1. Have one kid read Matthew 13:23 and another read Luke 8:15. Under the good-ground patch on the board, list what good ground does: hears · understands · keeps it · bears fruit · with patience.
  2. Ask: “Which word on this list is hardest for you? Why do you think Luke added ‘with patience’?”
  3. SAY“In the Book of Mormon, Alma compared the word to a seed too. He said if we nourish it with faith and patience, it grows into a tree of life (Alma 32:28–43).”
  4. Show the key verse and teach the motions phrase by phrase. Say it together twice.

Class screen: ❤️ An honest and good heart: hear it, keep it, grow · Luke 8:15

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: Scriptures for each team (their own, a classroom set from the library, or Gospel Library on a parent-approved device), A whiteboard and marker, or a big sheet of paper and a marker

  1. Pass your scriptures to one kid to read Matthew 13:23 and another to read Luke 8:15. Count on your fingers what good ground does: hears · understands · keeps it · bears fruit · with patience.
  2. Ask: “Which of those is hardest for you? Why do you think Luke added ‘with patience’?”
  3. SAY“In the Book of Mormon, Alma compared the word to a seed too. He said if we nourish it with faith and patience, it grows into a tree of life (Alma 32:28–43).”
  4. Show the key verse and teach the motions phrase by phrase. Say it together twice.
5. Game

Soil Sort

4 min

Teams diagnose real-life situations as path, rocks, thorns or good ground, and prescribe the fix.

  1. Lay out the four soil cards. Split into two teams and deal each team four scenario cards: (1) Ethan played with his shoelaces all lesson and couldn’t remember it by the car. (2) Lila liked a talk on prayer, but a friend laughed at it, so she dropped it. (3) Noah was excited after baptism but quit trying when kids teased him. (4) Ava started a scripture challenge and quit the first hard day. (5) Jack always has one more video to watch before he prays. (6) Sofia thinks more about getting the newest phone than anything at church. (7) Ben heard a lesson on kindness and sat with the new kid all week. (8) Grace didn’t understand a verse, so she asked her mom, prayed and kept reading.
  2. Teams read each card, decide the ground, and a runner places it on the right soil card. 1 point for the right ground.
  3. For another point, the team names a fix: soften the path (really listen, ask questions), dig out rocks (grow roots by daily prayer and study), pull thorns (put God first) or keep watering (keep going).
  4. Ask: “Which ground do you find yourself in most? What’s one fix you could try this week?” (No one has to answer out loud.)
🌪️ One runner per team at the soil cards. Runners speed-walk; anyone who runs tags a teammate to take over.

Class screen: 🩺 Path, rocks, thorns or good ground? Diagnose it! · 1 point for the ground · 1 point for the fix

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: 12 index cards or half sheets of paper and a marker for Soil Sort (see prep)

Soil Corners

  1. Name the four corners of the room: PATH · ROCKS · THORNS · GOOD GROUND. Split into two teams.
  2. Read one scenario at a time: Ethan played with his shoelaces all lesson · Lila dropped a talk on prayer when a friend laughed · Noah quit trying when kids teased him · Ava quit a scripture challenge the first hard day · Jack always has one more video before he prays · Sofia thinks more about the newest phone than church · Ben sat with the new kid all week · Grace asked, prayed and kept reading.
  3. Everyone walks fast to the corner that fits. Each team scores a point for every member in the right corner.
  4. The first team to name a good fix (soften, dig, pull or keep watering) scores a bonus point.
  5. Ask: “Which ground do you find yourself in most? What’s one fix you could try this week?” (No one has to answer out loud.)

Class screen: 🩺 Run to the corner: path, rocks, thorns or good ground?

6. Game

Forehead Guess: Parables Edition

3 min

A Heads Up–style guessing game with harder words reviews the parables and people.

  1. Keep the same teams. Tap Forehead Guess. One kid holds your phone or tablet on their forehead, screen facing their team.
  2. Teammates give clues without saying the word. Tilt down for “got it,” up to pass. 45-second turns.
  3. Add the scores to your Soil Sort points to crown today’s champions.
🌪️ Pick guessers with the Name Spinner. Clue-givers stay seated.
▶ Play Forehead Guess on the web

Class screen: 🤔 Forehead Guess: Parables Edition · No saying the word!

7. Game

Scripture Showdown

5 minBONUS

A fast team quiz reviews the whole lesson.

  1. Split into two teams and pick a captain for each. Tap Scripture Showdown.
  2. Read each question aloud. Teams huddle for 10 seconds; only the captain may answer.
  3. Bonus point if the team can name the chapter where the answer is found.
▶ Play Scripture Showdown on the web

Class screen: 🏆 Scripture Showdown!

8. Talk it over

What Kind of Ground?

3 min

Deeper questions help kids examine their own hearts and the worth of the gospel.

  1. Sit in a circle. Toss the soft ball to whoever answers next.
  2. Ask one question at a time. Pick the two or three that fit your class best, and share your own answer too.
💬 Ask the class
  • Jesus said the thorns are “the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches.” What are some thorns for kids your age?
  • Why do you think Jesus taught in parables instead of just saying things plainly? What does it take to understand them?
  • The man with the treasure and the merchant with the pearl gave up everything. What makes the gospel worth that much to you?
  • The mustard seed starts as the smallest seed. How can a small testimony grow? What have you seen grow in your own?
  • Jesus lifted a woman who had been bent over for eighteen years (Luke 13:11–13). What weighs people down today, and how does He lift them?

Class screen: 💬 What kind of ground is your heart? Let’s talk.

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: A soft ball or a rolled-up pair of socks

  1. Sit in a circle. Pass an invisible seed to whoever answers next; they “plant” it in their palm before speaking.
  2. Ask one question at a time. Pick the two or three that fit your class best, and share your own answer too.
9. Testimony

Testimony: Good Ground

2 min

End reverently with a personal commitment to nourish the word.

  1. Lower your voice. If you brought seeds, give one to each child. Otherwise, have them hold out an open hand as if holding a seed.
  2. Share one or two sentences about how your testimony of Jesus Christ grew from something small, or what helps you keep your heart soft.
  3. SAY“Your heart can be good ground. Take this seed home and put it somewhere you’ll see it each morning as a reminder to pray and read.”
  4. Introduce the challenge on the screen and ask a child to say the closing prayer.

Class screen: 🌱 Hear it. Keep it. Grow with patience. · Luke 8:15

Story drama

The Sower and the Four Grounds

Matthew 13:1–23 ↗

Parts to hand out

  • The SowerWalks along scattering handfuls of pretend seed in every direction.
  • BirdsSwoop in and snatch the seeds that land on the path.
  • The SunRises slowly, blazing hot, and scorches the seeds with no roots.
  • ThornsGrow up tall around the seeds with spiky, wiggly fingers.
  • DisciplesRead Matthew 13:10 and ask why Jesus teaches in parables.
  • SeedsEveryone else: crouch in one of the four patches and live out what happens to your ground.

Scenes

  1. 🚤🏖️ A boat for a pulpit

    So many people crowded the shore of the Sea of Galilee to hear Jesus that He climbed into a boat and sat down to teach. The whole crowd stood on the beach listening.

    🎬 Everyone stands in a line along one wall as the shore. The teacher sits on a chair a few steps out as the boat’s spot.

  2. 🧑‍🌾🌱 Behold, a sower went forth

    Jesus began a story. A farmer went out to plant. He grabbed handfuls of seed and flung them across his field, the way farmers did then. The seeds landed everywhere.

    🎬 The Sower walks across the room scattering pretend seed. Each Seed crouches in one of four patches: path, rocks, thorns or good ground.

  3. 🛤️🐦 Seeds on the hard path

    Some seeds fell on the hard-packed path where people walked. They couldn’t sink in. Birds swooped down and gobbled them up before they had a chance.

    🎬 The Birds flap in, tap the path Seeds on the shoulder, and those Seeds flutter away to become Birds too.

  4. 🪨☀️ Quick sprouts, no roots

    Some fell on rocky ground with only a thin layer of dirt. They sprang up fast! But their roots couldn’t go deep. When the hot sun came up, they were scorched and withered away.

    🎬 Rock Seeds pop up quickly, arms high. The Sun rises slowly, glaring. Rock Seeds droop, wilt and flop to the floor.

  5. 🌿🌵 Choked by the thorns

    Some fell among thorns. The seeds grew, but the thorns grew faster and taller, crowding and choking them until they couldn’t produce anything.

    🎬 Thorn Seeds grow up slowly. The Thorns rise taller around them with wiggly spiky fingers. The Thorn Seeds shrink back down, squished.

  6. 🌾🎉 Good ground: a hundredfold!

    But some fell into good ground. They sank deep roots, grew tall, and produced a harvest: some thirty times as much as was planted, some sixty, some a hundred! Then Jesus said, “Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

    🎬 Good-ground Seeds grow slowly and tall, sway, and fling their arms wide on “a hundredfold!” Everyone cups hands behind their ears.

  7. ❓👂 “Why speakest thou unto them in parables?”

    Later the disciples asked Jesus why He taught in stories. He said the stories open up to people whose hearts are ready. Then He told them how blessed they were to see and hear what prophets had longed to see.

    🎬 The Disciples read Matthew 13:10. The teacher reads Matthew 13:16. Everyone points to their eyes, then their ears.

  8. 🔑❤️ The seed is the word; the ground is the heart

    Then Jesus explained His own parable. The seed is God’s word. The path is a heart that doesn’t understand. The rocks are a heart with no roots that quits when things get hard. The thorns are worries and wanting riches. The good ground is a heart that hears, understands and bears fruit.

    🎬 As you name each ground, the kids who were in that patch stand and shout it: “Path!” “Rocks!” “Thorns!” “Good ground!”

Key verse

Luke 8:15 ↗
“But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
In kid words: The good ground is people with honest, good hearts who hear God’s word, keep it, and keep growing good fruit, even when it takes time.
🙌 “But that on the good ground are they” = pat the floor, then point to yourself · “which in an honest and good heart” = both hands on your heart · “having heard the word” = cup a hand behind your ear · “keep it” = hug your arms tight to your chest · “and bring forth fruit” = hands open upward like offering a basket · “with patience” = tap your wrist like a watch and nod slowly

More verses

Matthew 13:16 ↗
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”
In kid words: You are blessed because your eyes can see and your ears can hear God’s truth.
Matthew 13:31–32 ↗
“The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree”
In kid words: God’s kingdom is like a tiny mustard seed. It starts as the smallest seed but grows into a tree.
Matthew 13:45–46 ↗
“the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”
In kid words: God’s kingdom is like a merchant who found one amazing pearl and sold everything he had to get it.
Luke 13:13 ↗
“And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.”
In kid words: Jesus put His hands on her, and right away she stood up straight and praised God.

Forehead Guess words20 words

  • 🧑‍🌾 Sower
  • 🛤️ Wayside
  • 🐦 Fowls
  • 🪨 Stony Places
  • ☀️ Scorched
  • 🌵 Thorns
  • 🌾 Good Ground
  • 💯 Hundredfold
  • 📖 Parable
  • 🌳 Mustard Seed
  • 🍞 Leaven
  • 💰 Treasure Hid in a Field
  • 🦪 Pearl of Great Price
  • 🥀 Tares
  • 🧺 Harvest
  • 🎣 Net
  • 👂 Ears to Hear
  • 🧍 Eighteen Years
  • 🚪 Strait Gate
  • ⏳ Patience
Clues for each word
  • Sower: Farmer who scattered seed on four kinds of ground
  • Wayside: The hard path where birds ate the seed
  • Fowls: KJV word for the birds that devoured the seed
  • Stony Places: Thin dirt; seeds sprang up fast with no roots
  • Scorched: What the sun did to the rootless plants
  • Thorns: They sprang up and choked the seed
  • Good Ground: The honest and good heart that bears fruit
  • Hundredfold: The biggest harvest from the good ground
  • Parable: A short story with a heavenly meaning inside
  • Mustard Seed: Least of all seeds, but it becomes a tree
  • Leaven: Hidden in the meal until the whole was risen
  • Treasure Hid in a Field: A man sold all he had to buy that field
  • Pearl of Great Price: A merchant sold everything for it
  • Tares: Weeds an enemy sowed among the wheat
  • Harvest: When the wheat and tares are finally separated
  • Net: Cast into the sea, it gathered every kind
  • Ears to Hear: “Who hath ____ __ ____, let him hear”
  • Eighteen Years: How long the woman was bent over
  • Strait Gate: Luke 13:24: strive to enter in at it
  • Patience: Luke 8:15: good ground bears fruit with it
▶ Play Forehead GuessFull screen, 60-second timer, works on any phone.

Scripture Showdown10 questions

  1. Why did Jesus teach the crowd from a boat?
    • A. He was going fishing
    • B. The multitude was so great
    • C. It was raining
    Show answer

    ✅ B. The multitude was so great Matthew 13:2. The whole crowd stood on the shore to listen.

  2. In the parable of the sower, what is the seed?
    • A. The word of the kingdom
    • B. Money
    • C. Our friends
    Show answer

    ✅ A. The word of the kingdom Matthew 13:19. Jesus explained it Himself: the seed is God’s word.

  3. Why did the seeds on stony places wither?
    • A. Birds ate them
    • B. Thorns choked them
    • C. They had no root
    Show answer

    ✅ C. They had no root Matthew 13:6, 21. No roots means giving up when trouble comes.

  4. What did Jesus say the thorns stand for?
    • A. Wicked kings
    • B. Cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches
    • C. Hard school tests
    Show answer

    ✅ B. Cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches Matthew 13:22. Worries and wanting stuff can crowd out the word.

  5. Luke 8:15 says good ground bears fruit with what?
    • A. Patience
    • B. Gold
    • C. Speed
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Patience Testimonies grow over time, not overnight.

  6. What did the enemy sow among the wheat while men slept?
    • A. Stones
    • B. Thorns
    • C. Tares
    Show answer

    ✅ C. Tares Matthew 13:25. The good and bad grow together until the harvest.

  7. Why didn’t the householder let his servants pull up the tares?
    • A. They were too tired
    • B. They might root up the wheat too
    • C. Tares are good to eat
    Show answer

    ✅ B. They might root up the wheat too Matthew 13:29–30. He would separate them at harvest.

  8. What did the merchant sell everything to buy?
    • A. One pearl of great price
    • B. A field of wheat
    • C. A fishing boat
    Show answer

    ✅ A. One pearl of great price Matthew 13:46. The gospel is worth more than everything else.

  9. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven hidden in three measures of…
    • A. water
    • B. gold
    • C. meal
    Show answer

    ✅ C. meal Matthew 13:33. A little leaven makes the whole batch rise.

  10. How long had the woman in Luke 13 been bent over?
    • A. Eighteen years
    • B. Twelve years
    • C. Forty years
    Show answer

    ✅ A. Eighteen years Luke 13:11–13. Jesus laid His hands on her and she was made straight.

▶ Play Scripture ShowdownTeams take turns on one screen.

Songs

  • Faith Children’s Songbook, p. 96

    It compares faith to a seed that grows, just like Matthew 13 and Alma 32. Find it ↗

  • Search, Ponder, and Pray Children’s Songbook, p. 109

    How to become good ground: search the word, think about it, pray. Find it ↗

  • I Want to Live the Gospel Children’s Songbook, p. 148

    Good ground doesn’t just hear the word; it keeps it and bears fruit. Find it ↗

This week’s challenge

Weed Your Garden

Pick one thorn or rock in your life this week (too much screen time before prayer, giving up when it gets hard, forgetting what you learned). Choose one fix and do it every day: pray before screens, read a few verses of Matthew 13, or tell your family one thing you learned. Bonus: read Alma 32:28–43 and compare it to the sower.

Text the parents

Today in Primary we acted out the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1–23) and diagnosed real-life situations as path, rocks, thorns or good ground. Our key verse was Luke 8:15: good ground hears the word, keeps it and bears fruit with patience. Ask your child: what are some “thorns” for kids today, and what’s one fix they chose to try this week?

📝 After class

What worked? Who needs a check-in this week? Jot it here on a printed copy, or in the app’s private class notes.

Got extra time?

🎭 Parable Charades · 5 min

  1. Give each team one parable to act out silently in 20 seconds: mustard seed, leaven, treasure in a field, pearl of great price, net, wheat and tares (Matthew 13:24–52).
  2. The other team guesses the parable, then earns a bonus point if they can explain what it teaches about the kingdom of God.
  3. Ask: “Which parable describes your testimony right now?”

🌾 Wheat and Tares · 5 min

  1. Read Matthew 13:24–30 and 36–43. Explain that tares look almost exactly like wheat when they are young.
  2. Ask: “Why wouldn’t the householder pull them up right away? What does that teach about living in a world with good and bad side by side?”
  3. Mention that the Lord explained more about this parable to Joseph Smith (Doctrine and Covenants 86).

🧍 Made Straight · 4 min

  1. Have everyone bend over and try to look at the ceiling for 10 seconds. Ask: “Now imagine eighteen years like this.”
  2. Read Luke 13:10–17. Ask: “Why was the synagogue ruler angry? What did Jesus call her in verse 16?” (A daughter of Abraham.)
  3. Ask: “How does Jesus lift people today? How can we help?”

Sources

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version, the Bible used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tap or click a reference to open it in Gospel Library. Start with the official Come, Follow Me manual; these ideas are here to help it come alive.

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