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Is this (estin de hautē). Means this. Jesus now proceeds to interpret his own parable.
The seed is the word of God (ho sporos estin ho logos tou theou). The article with both subject and predicate as here means that they are interchangeable and can be turned round: The word of God is the seed. The phrase “the word of God” does not appear in Matthew and only once in Mark (Mar 7:13) and John (Joh 10:35), but four times in Luke (Luk 5:1; Luk 8:11, Luk 8:21; Luk 11:28) and twelve times in Acts. In Mar 4:14 we have only “the word.” In Mar 3:31 we have “the will of God,” and in Mat 12:46 “the will of my Father” where Luk 8:21 has “the word of God.” This seems to show that Luke has the subjective genitive here and means the word that comes from God.