As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty. The good-soil explanation: hearing and understanding together produce fruit. The understanding — the comprehension that the path-soil lacked — is the condition that enables the fruit-bearing. The three grades of harvest communicate the diversity of fruitfulness within the genuinely good-soil reception: all three are genuine, all three are extraordinary by first-century agricultural standards, and none is disqualified.

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