Mar 4:16-17 | ESV | STEP | And these are the ones sown on rocky ground : the ones who , when they hear the word , immediately receive it with joy .

a[ch. 6:20; Isa. 58:2; Ezek. 33:31, 32; John 5:35]

Mark 4:16-17

16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it ^awith joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but ^bendure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^cthey fall away. ^{▼▼Or stumble}