Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

But 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."

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

He answered them, "You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me."

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He is dead!"

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much -- homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions -- and in the age to come, eternal life.