Luke 8:13

They on the rock Shallow, impulsive listeners, whose enthusiasm is hot and transient as a blaze in the straw.

with joy "Yet they seek me daily, and delightto know my ways," Isaiah 58:2 ."Thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice...for they hear thy words, but they do them not," Ezekiel 33:32. Herod "heard John gladly,"Mark 6:20.

in time of temptation Temptation in any form of "affliction or persecution" (Matt., Mk.) which tests the moral nature.

fall away Literally "stand alooff'apostatise"immediately they are offended," Matt., Mk. See a very striking instance of this in John 6:66.