Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Perushim they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
The same came to him by night, and said to him, *Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.*
Some therefore of the Perushim said, *This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Shabbat.* Others said, *How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?* There was division among them.