But if you throw the wheat away, that is, in the ground, it will bring forth fruit. When you are too cautious, and dare not throw away your wheat, it will not increase nor will it bring forth fruit. But if you throw it in the ground, and let it rot there, it will bring forth much fruit. Let the wheat rot in the wet and warm ground, and it will increase greatly. Throw the precious seed in the ground, and let it die there.
Death goes before life.
Let the wheat die and become mouldy, and it shall bring forth sheaves full of new wheat. When you bury your seed in the ground, it will putrefy there. But you will return with rejoicing, bearing your sheaves. Like it is with the corn, so is it with our bodies. When we die, at the end of our life on earth, we bury the body in the ground.