Matthew 13:20

Tree of Life Version

“The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Cross References

John 5:35

He was the lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for a while in his light.

Mark 6:20

For Herod was in awe of John and kept him safe, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When he listened to John he was confused, but he still listened gladly.

Isaiah 58:2

Yet they seek Me day to day and delight to know My ways, as if they were a nation that did right, and had not forsaken their God’s decree. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

2 Chronicles 24:2

Joash did what was right in the eyes of Adonai all the days of Jehoiada the kohen.

Acts 8:13

Even Simon himself believed; and after being immersed, he continued with Philip. And when he saw signs and great miracles happening, he was continually amazed.

2 Chronicles 24:14

When they had finished, they brought the remainder of the money before the king and Jehoiada and they made it into vessels for the House of Adonai—vessels for avodah and for burnt offering, pans and utensils of gold and silver. Then they offered burnt offerings in the House of Adonai continually all the days of Jehoiada.

2 Chronicles 24:6

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and asked him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Adonai on the congregation of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”

Matthew 7:8

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it shall be opened.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one having been sown along the road.

Matthew 13:21

Yet he has no root himself but lasts only a short while; and when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.