Mǎkĕfúyīn 4:5

5 Yǒu luò zaì tǔ qiǎn shítou dì shang de , tǔ jì bù shēn , fā miaó zuì kuaì .

Mǎkĕfúyīn 4:5 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 4:5

And some fell on stony ground
The word was preached to some persons who had hearts of stone, and which remained so:

where it had not much earth;
and so could be received only in a notional and superficial way, but could take no place, so as to produce any good effect:

and immediately it sprung up;
a sudden and hasty profession of the word was made, without a powerful experience of it:

because it had no depth of earth;
if it had, it would have been longer in coming up; more work would have been done by it, which would have required more time, before a profession of it had been made.

Mǎkĕfúyīn 4:5 In-Context

3 Nǐmen tīng a! Yǒu yī ge sǎzhǒng de chū qù sǎzhǒng .

4 Sǎ de shíhou , yǒu luò zaì lùpáng de , fēiniǎo lái chī jìn le .

5 Yǒu luò zaì tǔ qiǎn shítou dì shang de , tǔ jì bù shēn , fā miaó zuì kuaì .

6 Rìtou chūlai yī shaì , yīnwei méiyǒu gēn , jiù kū gān le .

7 Yǒu luò zaì jīngjí lǐ de , jīngjí zhǎng qǐlai , bǎ tā jǐ zhù le , jiù bù jié shí .