And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it. But other seed fell on the good soil and produced grain,[a] this one a hundred times as much and this one sixty and this one thirty. The one who has ears, let him hear!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:8 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”