Mark 4:16-17 And likewise, these are those who are sown upon the rocky-areas, who, whenever they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy;

MLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ And likewise, these are those who are sown upon the rocky-areas, who, whenever they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy; ¹⁷ and they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Thereafter, when affliction or persecution has happened to them because of the word, immediately they stumble.