Matthew 13:20–21

13:20 The27 seed sown on rocky ground28 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;29 when30 trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

27	tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
28	tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.
29	tn Grk “is temporary.”
30	tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.