Matthew 13:20-21

13:20 The ¹  seed sown on rocky ground ²  is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 13:21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; ³  when ⁴  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.

³ tn Grk “is temporary.”

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.