Mark 4:8

4:8 But ¹  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

Mark 4:19

4:19 but ²  worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, ³  and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, ⁴  and it produces nothing.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in the final stage of the parable.

² tn Grk “and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

³ tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”

⁴ sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.