But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

"But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

But some seed fell into good soil and yielded a crop that sprang up and increased, yielding thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold.

But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."

A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband.

"The second, who had received the two talents, came up and said: "'Master, it was two talents that you entrusted to me; see, I have gained two more.'

Then he called two centurions to him and said: "Get ready by nine o'clock tonight two hundred infantry to march as far as Caesarea, and also seventy troopers and two hundred spearmen."

And I will give power to my two witnesses, and clothed in sackcloth they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

"These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

"But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church;

"In the same way the one who got two talents made another two.

Then summoning the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

After this the appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two before his face, into every city and place into which he himself intended to go.

"From this time there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three;

There were together Simon Peter and Thomas, called "The Twin," and Nathanael, from Cana of Galilee, and the two sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.