Mark 4:5

And 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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

In Context

4And it came about that when he went to sow, that some [seeds] fell beside the road. And the birds came and devoured it.

6And when the shemesh rose, it was scorched and, because it did not have a shoresh (root), it withered.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 11:19And I will give them a lev echad, and I will put a ruach chadashah (new regenerated spirit) within you; and I will remove the lev haeven (heart of stone) out of their basar, and will give them a lev basar;

Hosea 10:12Sow to yourselves in tzedakah, 1 reap in chesed; 1 break up your fallow ground; 1 for it is time to seek Hashem, 1 till He come and rain tzedek upon you. 1

Matthew 13:5And others fell upon the rocky places, where there is not much soil, and immediately it sprouts on account of the lack of the soilʼs depth.

Mark 4:16And these are the ones sown upon the rocky places: when they hear the dvar, ofen ort with simcha they receive it.

Luke 8:13Now the ones upon the rock are those who when they hear, with simcha they receive the dvar; but these have no shoresh (root). They have emunah for a while, but in time of nisayon (trial, temptation), they become shmad and they fall away.

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 →

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