Mark 4:16
Good News Translation
Other people are like the seeds that fall on rocky ground. As soon as they hear the message, they receive it gladly.

New Revised Standard Version
And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: when they hear the word, they immediately receive it with joy.

Contemporary English Version
The seeds that fell on rocky ground are the people who gladly hear the message and accept it at once.

New American Bible
And these are the ones sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the word, receive it at once with joy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

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Mark 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly.

Mark 10:17-22 And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting? . . .

Ezekiel 33:31,32 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. . . .

Matthew 8:19,20 And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go. . . .

Matthew 13:20,21 And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy. . . .

Luke 8:13 Now they upon the rock are they who when they hear receive the word with joy: and these have no roots: for they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away.

John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

Acts 8:13,18-21 Then Simon himself believed also and, being baptized, he adhered to Philip. And being astonished, wondered to see the signs and exceeding great miracles which were done. . . .

Acts 24:25,26 And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to come, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee. . . .

Acts 26:28 And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to become a Christian.

Context
The Parable of the Sower Explained
15And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. 16And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and then when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are presently scandalized.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:5
And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth.

Mark 4:15
And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown, and as soon as they have heard, immediately Satan cometh and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

Mark 4:17
And they have no root in themselves, but are only for a time: and then when tribulation and persecution ariseth for the word they are presently scandalized.

Mark 4:15
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