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18 And other people are the ones being sown the seed into the thorns. These are the ones having heard the word— 19 and coming-in, the anxieties[a] of the age[b] and the deceitfulness[c] of riches and the desires with respect to the other things are choking the word, and it becomes unfruitful[d]. 20 And those people are the ones having been sown[e] the seed on the good soil, who are hearing[f] the word and accepting it and bearing-fruit— thirty fold and sixty fold and a hundred fold”.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:19 Or, worries, cares, concerns.
  2. Mark 4:19 Or, world.
  3. Mark 4:19 Or, deception.
  4. Mark 4:19 Fruitbearing is the evidence of life.
  5. Mark 4:20 That is, who have been sown the seed. Note the change in tense. The second two soils are ‘being sown’; they are in the process of being sown in hopes that a fruitful crop can be grown. This soil has been sown and is bearing fruit.
  6. Mark 4:20 That is, listening to, in the sense of ‘obeying’. Note the change of tense that stresses continuous action here (are hearing), in contrast to the first three soils.

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