Mark 4:17
Yet they do not have a shoresh (root) in themselves but are transitory; then when ES TZARAH comes or redifah (persecution) on account of the dvar, ofen ort they fall away, they become shmad. + 4:17 Jer 30:7; Mt 24:21-22
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18And others are the ones sown among thorns. These are the ones having heard the dvar,
Cross References
Job 19:28But ye think, How we will persecute him, 1 seeing the shoresh (root) of the matter is found in me? 1
Matthew 11:6Ashrey (Happy) is the one who does not find a cause of michshol (falling, stumbling) in me. + 11:6 as Moshiach
Matthew 13:21Yet he has no root in himself but is short-lived, and when ES TZARAH comes or persecution on account of the Dvar Hashem, immediately he ceases being a maamin Meshichi (Messianic believer) and becomes meshummad (apostate), falling away and giving up the + 13:21 true Orthodox Jewish faith. + 13:21 Jer 30:7
Mark 4:5And other [seeds] fell upon the rocky places where it did not have much soil, and ofen ort (immediately) it sprang up because it did not have depth of soil.
John 8:31Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to the Yehudim who had emunah in him, If you remain in the dvar of me, + 8:31 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach then you are my talmidim indeed.
1 Corinthians 10:12So then the one that presupposes that he stands, let him take care lest he fall.
Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21
The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →