Charles Spurgeon Commentary Mark 4:6-8

"and when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And other fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought forth, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold." — Mark 4:6-8 (ASV)

Thank God for that! There were three failures, but there was one success; or, perhaps we might more correctly say, three successes.

There were three sorts of ground that yielded nothing, but at last the sower came to a piece of soil that had been well prepared, and therefore was good ground, which yielded fruit, though the quantity varied even there: some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.