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8. ἐποίησεν καρπὸν ἑκατονταπλασίονα. St Luke passes over the ‘growing and increasing’ of the fruit (Mar 4:8) and its various degrees of productiveness—thirty and sixty as well as an hundredfold. “Quelle puérilité indigne d’hommes sérieux que ces variations mesquines,” says Godet, “si les évangélistes travaillaient sur un document commun.”
ἐφώνει. This word—‘spake with a loud voice’—shews, like the “Hearken!” in St Mark, the special attention which our Lord called to His new method.
ἀκουέτω. In other words, ‘this teaching is worthy the deepest attention of those who have the moral and spiritual capacity to understand it.’