Matthew 13:5
and others fell on the rocky places where they did not have much earth, and immediately they sprang forth, through having no depth of earth,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the birds having come, devoured them,
6and the sun having risen they were scorched, and through having no root, they withered,
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:19And I have given one heart to them, || And I give a new spirit in your midst, || And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, || And I have given a heart of flesh to them.
Amos 6:12Do horses run on a rock? Does one plow [it] with oxen? For you have turned judgment to gall, || And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
Matthew 13:20And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it,
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 →