Matthew 13:5

And 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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

In Context

4And while he sowed, on the one hand, this + 13:4 Seed fell along the road, and the birds having come, devoured them.

6And when the shemesh (sun) arose, the zera (seed) was scorched, and because it did not have a 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;

Amos 6:12Do susim run upon the rock? 1 Do men plow there with oxen? 1 For ye have turned mishpat into poison, 1 and the p'ri of tzedakah into wormwood; 1

Matthew 13:20And the zera sown upon the rocky places is the person listening to the Dvar Hashem and immediately with simcha receives 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 →

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