Matthew 13:5
Other seeds fell on stony ground where there wasn't much earth where they sprouted quickly.
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4“As he was sowing, some of the seeds fell on the path. The birds came and ate them up.
6The sun rose and scorched them and they withered because they had no roots.
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:19I will give them single-minded commitment and a whole new spirit. I will take away their hard-hearted attitude and replace it with one that is loving.
Amos 6:12Can horses gallop over rocks? Can oxen plow the sea? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of doing good into bitterness!
Matthew 13:20The seeds sown on stony ground are people who hear the message and happily accept it straight away.
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 →