And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain.[a] And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain,[b] coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop[c]—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:7 Literally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop”
  2. Mark 4:8 Literally “fruit,” describing here the grain harvested from the healthy plants; in contemporary English this would more naturally be expressed by terms like “grain” or “crop”
  3. Mark 4:8 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  4. Mark 4:8 The phrase “times as much” is not in the Greek text but is implied