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Mark 4:20 KJV
Mark · chapter 4 · verse 20
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.Mark 4:20 · King James Version
Mark 4:20 in context
18And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
19And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20And 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.
21And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
22For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
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Key words (Strong's)
- thirtyfoldtriakontathirtyG5144 →
- receiveparadechomaito receive, take up, take upon one's self, to admitG3858 →
- groundgēarable land, the ground, the earth as a standing place, the main land as opposed to the…G1093 →
- fruitkarpophoreōto bear fruit, to bear, bring forth, deeds, to bear fruit of one's selfG2592 →
- sixtyhexēkontasixtyG1835 →
- sownspeirōto sow, scatter, seed, metaph. of proverbial sayingsG4687 →
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The foregoing chapter began with Christ's entering into the synagogue (Mar 4:1); this chapter begins with Christ's teaching again by the sea side. Thus he changed his method, that if possible all might be reached and wrought upon.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-20