Plough

The Man with the Plough – James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.

The Plough and the fields are elements several times used by Jesus in the parables he uses to teach the crowds.

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• In a catechesis: Have I not perhaps said it? "No one who puts his hand to the Plough and looks back to those who remain is fit for the Kingdom of God." I had put my hand to the Plough to open with the share, not the soil but the Hearts, to sow there the word of God. I only removed that hand when it was torn from there to be nailed to the Cross and to open through the torture of that nail the Heart of my Father, causing forgiveness to come out of the wound for humanity.
• In Capernaum to someone who wants to follow after having said "God" to his parents. "No one, after putting his hand to the Plough to plow the fields of Hearts and sow the seed of the Doctrine of God, can look back to see what he has left and lost, what he could have possessed by following the common way." and
• Do you not remember my words about human affections? My advice, so clear that they are already commands, for the one who wants to put his hand to the Plough?

In the foundational Christian texts

In the Bible

The Plough is mentioned only once in the Bible.

The share, which is synonymous with it, is mentioned four times in the Old Testament (Bible before Jesus), but not in the New Testament (Bible after Jesus):

• 1 Samuel 13:20 – Here Canon Crampon translates Faux as Plough
• Isaiah 2:4
• Joel 4:10
• Micah 4:3

First part of the Bible from the book of Genesis until before the coming of Jesus Christ. Parallel

Second part of the Bible, from the coming of Jesus Christ until the Apocalypse.