Matthew 13:5
Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil. Immediately they sprang up, because the soil had no depth.
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In Context
4As he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and devoured them.
6But when the sun had risen, they were scorched because they had no root, and they withered away.
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:19I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take out the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky cliffs? 1 Does one plow there with oxen? 1 Yet you have turned justice into poison 1 and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 1
Matthew 13:20What was sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
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 →