diff --git a/mrk/04/20.md b/mrk/04/20.md index 6ba06bf6db..1bb6c16050 100644 --- a/mrk/04/20.md +++ b/mrk/04/20.md @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -# Those that were sown on the good soil +# Those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word, accept it and bear fruit -"These people are the seeds that fall on the good soil" or "These people are like seeds that fall on on the good soil." In [verse 14](./14.md), what the sower sows is "the word." Here Jesus speaks of what the sower sows as those who hear the word. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) +"The seeds that fall on the good soil represent people who hear the word, accept it and bear fruit" -# thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much - -This refers to the grain that the plants produce. Alternate translation: "some produce thirty grains, some produce sixty grains, and some produce a hundred grains" or "some produce 30 times the grain that was sown, some produce 60 times the grain that was sown, and some produce 100 times the grain that was sown" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]]) +# and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much +Fruit represents the results or the effect of God's word in a person's life. The numbers tell how much fruit, or results, there might be. Alternate translation: "and produce good results, like plants that bear thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much fruit as what was sown" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]]) \ No newline at end of file