Matthew 13:5
Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil.
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In The King James Version
In Context
4And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it.
6But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:19And I will give them one heart. And I will distribute a new spirit to their interior. And I will take away the heart of stone from their body. And I will give them a heart of flesh.
Amos 6:12For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.
Matthew 13:20Then whoever has received the seed upon a rocky place, this is one who hears the word and promptly accepts it with joy.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 13:2-24
The Parable of the Sower; Why Christ Taught in Parables; Of the Sower and the Seed. 1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; 4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where… Read the whole commentary →