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The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the ^[j]word, immediately he ^[k](q)falls away.

And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of ^(r)the ^[l]world and the ^(s)deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.