Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself and he endures for a while. When tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, he quickly falls away.
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20What was sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
Cross References
Job 19:28If you say, 'How we will persecute him! 1 The root of his troubles lies in him,' 1
Psalms 36:3His words are sinful and deceitful; 1 he does not want to be wise and do good. 1
Proverbs 12:12The wicked person desires what evil men have stolen from others, 1 but the fruit of righteous people comes from themselves. 1
Matthew 5:10Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, 2 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:26But everyone who hears my words and does not obey them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.
Matthew 10:37He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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 →