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What does Mark 4:5 mean?

"Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil."

— Mark 4:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

2

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

3

“Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

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and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

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Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

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When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

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Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

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Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

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