The dying grain and multiplied harvest

Meaning

The grain image supports the claim that destruction of a previous condition can yield multiplied fruit. Centuplum intensifies the productive result, while the paragraph’s later “a thousand times better” is another emphatic valuation, not a measured experimental ratio. The edition identifies the scriptural wording as a combination of the dying grain and hundredfold harvest motifs. It is therefore not a verbatim biblical quotation.