“And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.”
But when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. The scorching sun that kills the rootless growth is identified in verse 21 as trouble and persecution arising on account of the word. The person who receives the word with immediate joy but has no root falls away when the cost of following Jesus becomes real. The speed of the initial response is not the measure of the reception's genuineness.
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