Matthew 13:20

13:20 The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Matthew 13:23

13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”


tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.

tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).