some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;
Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.
this word ever sounding in our ears, To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the Provocation.
"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up;
some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up along with it and choked it;