Mark 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and... for. time. but are temporary.

affliction. tribulation.

for... sake. on account of. Greek. dia. App-104.Mark 4:2.

are offended. stumble. The stumbling is as immediate as the "gladness "of Mark 4:16.

Mark 4:17

17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.a