During World War II the city of Palermo, Sicily, a military objective of the Allied Powers, was to be bombed by the American Air Force. To warn the Sicilians, telling them to flee, thousands of pamphlets were dropped on the city beforehand, but the citizens simply did not believe the warning. They listened, but they did not hear! When the American planes came and dropped their bombs, hundreds of Sicilians were killed; in fact, in some cold, dead hands were found the very pages urging them to leave the city.

Jesus urges his disciples not to just hear the words of the kingdom but to actually follow them, to act upon them. At this time in Jesus' ministry great crowds were following. In those grounds represented the all the hearts of mankind, and all the responses to truth.