New Revised Standard Version
As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

Contemporary English Version
The seeds that fell on rocky ground are the people who gladly hear the message and accept it at once.

New American Bible
The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.

And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy.

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Matthew 13:5,6 And other some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth: and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth. . . .

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1 Samuel 11:13-15 And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord this day hath wrought salvation in Israel: . . .

2 Chronicles 24:2,6,14 And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest. . . .

Psalm 78:34-37 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. . . .

Psalm 106:12,13 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. . . .

Isaiah 58:2 For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.

Ezekiel 33:31,32 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness. . . .

Mark 4:16,17 And these likewise are they that are sown on the stony ground: who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy. . . .

Mark 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly.

John 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

Acts 8:13 Then Simon himself believed also and, being baptized, he adhered to Philip. And being astonished, wondered to see the signs and exceeding great miracles which were done.

Galatians 4:14,15 You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. . . .