And other fell on good ground
The Syriac version reads, "on good and beautiful ground"; and so
the Cambridge copy of Beza's; ground which both looked well, and
proved well; and signifies such hearers who have good and honest
hearts, made so by the Spirit of God; who receive the word in the
love of it, have a spiritual understanding, and real experience
of it;
and sprang up, and bare fruit, an hundred fold;
or, "a hundred for one", as the Syriac version renders it; a
hundred grains for one that was sown. The Ethiopic version adds,
"and it was to thirty, and it was to sixty": that is, as the
other evangelists say, "some thirty", and "some sixty fold"; for
the word of God is more fruitful in some of those gracious
hearers, than in others:
and when he had said these things, he cried:
with a loud voice, that what he was about to say might be
attended to:
he that hath ears to hear, let him hear;
see this parable more largely explained in the following notes.
(See Gill on Matthew
13:3) (See Gill on Matthew
13:4) (See Gill on Matthew
13:5) (See Gill on Matthew
13:6) (See Gill on Matthew
13:7) (See Gill on Matthew
13:8) (See Gill on Matthew
13:9)