1. Mark 4:20 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Did the good soil have less external challenges than the other parts on which seed fell?

Mark 4:20 (ESV)

20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

The “good soil” is certainly not protected soil where the heat of the sun would not scorch growth (there was a threat of persecution).1

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