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MATTHEW 13:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 13:7Matt 13:9
“But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.”
Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. The good soil produces the harvest — in three grades of abundance (hundredfold, sixtyfold, thirtyfold) that all represent extraordinary yield. The harvest that the good soil produces is not uniform: the same good-soil reception produces different levels of fruitfulness. The parable does not rank the grades of the good-soil harvest but acknowledges the genuine fruitfulness of all three.

Church Fathers on Matthew 13:8

When He had rebuked him that told Him of His mother and His brethren, He then did according to their request; He departed out of the house, having first corrected His brethren for their weak desire of vainglory; He then paid the honour due to His mother, as it is said, 'The same day Jesus went forth out of the house, and not down by the sea aide.

Chrysostom · 4th century

By the words, 'The same day,' he sufficiently shews that these things either followed immediately upon what had gone before, or that many things could not have intervened; unless indeed 'day' here after the Scripture manner signifies a period.

Augustine · 4th century · De Cons. Ev., ii, 41

For not only the Lord’s words and actions, but His journeyings also, and the places in which He works His mighty works and preaches, are full of heavenly sacraments.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century
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