Bible verse
Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
Mark 4:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 4.
12 so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
13 Then Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
14 The farmer sows the word.
15 Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.
16 Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
17 But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
18 Others are like the seeds sown among the thorns. They hear the word,
19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
20 Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop—thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
KJV
And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
ASV
And these in like manner are they that are sown upon the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, straightway receive it with joy;
ERV
And these in like manner are they that are sown upon the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, straightway receive it with joy;
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