And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain,[a] coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop[b]—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.[c] And he said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!”

The Reason for the Parables

10 And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking[d] him about the parables.

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Footnotes

  1. 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”
  2. Mark 4:8 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Mark 4:8 The phrase “times as much” is not in the Greek text but is implied
  4. Mark 4:10 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began asking”)