<p>13:27&nbsp;<em>And the servants of the householder came and said to him: Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?-&nbsp;</em>To a Palestinian rural audience, the answer was obvious. Enemies sowing weeds amongst the wheat was a fairly common occurrence. The story is set up to make these servants seem somehow foolish for not suspecting the obvious explanation. In the first instance, the Lord is addressing the problem the disciples were having as to why there was such mixed response to the Gospel. He&rsquo;s gently trying to explain to them that surely it was obvious why there wasn&rsquo;t better response- there was, clearly enough, a systematic campaign orchestrated by the Jews to damage the harvest. &nbsp;</p>