Mark 4:5

4:5 Other seed fell on rocky ground ¹  where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep. ² 

Mark 4:28

4:28 By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

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¹ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

² tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”