Matthew 13:23

What was sown on the good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands it. He bears fruit and makes a crop, some yielding one hundred times as much as was planted, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.”

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In The King James Version

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

In Context

22What was sown among the thorn plants, this is the person who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

24Jesus presented another parable to them. He said, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

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Cross References

Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked, 1 or stand in the pathway with sinners, 1 or sit in the assembly of mockers. 1

Proverbs 1:5Let wise people listen and increase their learning, 1 and let discerning people get guidance, 1

Ezekiel 18:31Throw away from yourselves all of the transgressions that you have committed; make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Matthew 3:8Bear fruit worthy of repentance.

Matthew 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.

Mark 4:20Then those that were sown in the good soil are the ones who hear the word and receive it, and they produce crops—thirty, sixty, or a hundred times what was sown.”

Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24

The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →

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