Discovery BoxMatthew 13:20 
Context13:20 The 1 seed sown on rocky ground 2 is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
Matthew 17:6
Context17:6 When the disciples heard this, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. 3
Matthew 25:25
Context25:25 so 4 I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.
3 tn Grk “they fell down on their faces.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”
4 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
