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!”

The Reason for the Parables

10 And the disciples came up and[b] said to him, “Why[c] do you speak to them in parables?”

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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”
  2. Matthew 13:10 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Matthew 13:10 Literally “because of what”