fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus ful-filled not only the role of the Servant of God, but in the above respects also the role of the God who sent him. Jesus did not simply “proclaim the good news of God” (Mark 1:14); he was the good news of God. Fourth and finally, if the Parable of the Sower reflects the mission and experience of Isaiah’s Servant of God, and if, as nearly all scholars agree, parables reflect the mind of Jesus (whether ipsissima verba or vox), then it seems justified to assume