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Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who hear the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold."
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He went on to say, "Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand?
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Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.
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Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
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He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.
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For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away."
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Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the ground:
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he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
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Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.
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But no sooner is the crop ripe, than he sends the reapers, because the time of harvest has come."
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Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it?