“And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.”
Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop — some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown — the good soil people complete the triad: they hear (like all four types), they accept (unlike the path-people, the rocky-ground people who abandon, and the thorny-ground people who are choked), and they produce (unlike the other three types). The three levels of production (thirty, sixty, a hundred) communicate that fruitfulness varies within the good-soil category while remaining extraordinary by any normal standard. The good soil's defining characteristic is not perfection but the complete sequence: hearing, accepting, producing.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!