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      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "good seed and tares in the field",
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      "reference": "John 12:24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies",
      "explanation": "The seed image presents death as the path to multiplied fruit.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 3:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "I planted, Apollos watered",
      "explanation": "Paul uses planting imagery for ministerial labour under God’s growth-giving power.",
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      "reference": "1 Cor. 15:36-38",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "what thou sowest is not quickened except it die",
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      "reference": "2 Cor. 9:6",
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