Markos 4:16-18

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁶ And these are the ones sown upon the rocky places: when they hear the dvar, ofen ort with simcha they receive it.

¹⁷ Yet they do not have a shoresh (root) in themselves but are transitory; then when ES TZARAH comes or redifah (persecution) on account of the dvar, ofen ort they fall away, they become shmad. [YIRMEYAH 30:7; Mattityahu 24:21-22]

¹⁸ And others are the ones sown among thorns. These are the ones having heard the dvar,