*A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.

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Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

Still other seed fell on good ground and produced fruit: some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times what was sown.

Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!

But other seed fell on the good soil and produced grain, this one a hundred times as much and this one sixty and this one thirty.

But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

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