5And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)The foregoing chapter began with Christ’s entering into the synagogue (Mark 4:1); this chapter begins with Christ’s teaching again by the sea side . Thus he changed his method, that if possible all might be reached and wrought upon. To gratify the nice and more genteel sort of people that had seats, chief seats, in the synagogue , and did not care for hearing a sermon any where else, he did not pr…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.