Mark 4:18 CPDV

¹⁶  And similarly, there are those who were sown upon stony ground. These, when they have heard the word, immediately accept it with gladness.

¹⁷  But they have no root in themselves, and so they are for a limited time. And when next tribulation and persecution arises because of the word, they quickly fall away.

¹⁸  And there are others who are sown among thorns. These are those who hear the word,

¹⁹  but worldly tasks, and the deception of riches, and desires about other things enter in and suffocate the word, and it is effectively without fruit.

²⁰  And there are those who are sown upon good soil, who hear the word and accept it; and these bear fruit: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred.'