1. Mark 4:16–17 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is the application relating to the seed that fell on rocky ground?

Mark 4:16–17 (ESV)

16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.

A superficial and temporary reception of the word of Jesus has the further result that little or nothing remains of the initial interest when tribulation and persecution occurs.1