The images indicate that the seed that has been sown is threatened by birds, the sun’s heat, and weeds, and that it thrives only in good soil. That is not a different kind of soil, but it is soil that has depth and is receptive. In it the sown kernel does not remain on the surface, but by sprouting roots it can find moisture and nourishment. And then, by growing out, it can bear fruit. The seed is welcome here! And everything depends on that.1
8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”