{Yielded fruit} (edidou karpon). Change to imperfect tense
of did(936d)i, to give, for it was continuous fruit-bearing. {Some
a hundredfold} (ho men hekaton). Variety, but fruit. This is
the only kind that is worth while. The hundredfold is not an
exaggeration (cf.  Ge 26:12 ). Such instances are given by
Wetstein for Greece, Italy, and Africa. Herodotus (i. 93) says
that in Babylonia grain yielded two hundredfold and even to three
hundredfold. This, of course, was due to irrigation as in the
Nile Valley.