Mark 4:20 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Mark 4:20 Mean?
The interpretation ends where the parable did, in harvest. Jesus marks the good soil with three verbs: they hear the word, they receive it, and they bring forth fruit. Hearing opens the door, receiving makes the word at home, and fruit follows as surely as harvest follows planting.
Good ground is not flawless ground; it is ground that lets the seed stay and work. The welcome is the whole secret. And the yields still differ, thirty in one life, a hundred in another, without one word of comparison or shame; each field is fruitful with the fruit it was given to bear. Christ asks not for identical harvests but for honest soil, and He Himself supplies the life in the seed.
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What does Mark 4:20 mean?
The good-ground hearers hear the word, receive it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.