Mark 4:16-20 And in like manner, they that are sown as on stony grounds are such, as when they hear the word,

Worsley⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ And in like manner, they that are sown as on stony grounds are such, as when they hear the word, ¹⁷ immediately receive it with joy, but have no root in themselves, and so continue but for a short season: and then, when affliction cometh, or persecution on account of the word, they are as soon offended. ¹⁸ And those that are sown as among thorns, are these: such as hear the word indeed, ¹⁹ but the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and inordinate desires after other things entering in choke the word, and so it becometh unfruitful. ²⁰ And these are they who are like seed sown on good ground: such as hear the word, and receive it; and bring forth fruit, some thirty-fold, and some sixty, and some an hundred.