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] And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”

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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