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And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold."
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He said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under the bushel basket, or under the bed, and not on the lampstand?
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For there is nothing hidden, except to be disclosed; nor is anything secret, except to come to light.
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Let anyone with ears to hear listen!"
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And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you.
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For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away."
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He also said, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,
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and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how.
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The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
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But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come."
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He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it?