Mark 4:17

but they have no root within them. They last for a time; then, when suffering or persecution comes because of the Message, they are immediately overthrown.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

In Context

16In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,

18Others there are who receive the seed among the thorns: these are they who have heard the Message,

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Cross References

Matthew 11:6and blessed is every one who does not stumble and fall because of my claims."

Matthew 13:21It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.

Mark 4:5Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;

John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

1 Corinthians 10:12So then let him who thinks he is standing securely beware of falling.

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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