Matthew 7:25

7:25 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

Matthew 13:5

13:5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

Matthew 13:8

13:8 But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

tn Grk “the rivers.”

tn Here and in vv. 7 and 8 δέ (de) has not been translated.

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

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