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When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root,[a] it withered. Other seed fell among the thorns,[b] and they grew up and choked it,[c] and it did not produce grain. But[d] other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:6 tn Grk “it did not have root.”
  2. Mark 4:7 sn Palestinian weeds like these thorns could grow up to 6 feet in height and have a major root system.
  3. Mark 4:7 sn That is, crowded out the good plants.
  4. Mark 4:8 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.