Stony places— Rocky ground. The phrase, stony places, does not express the sense. There may be many loose stones, from which the place would properly be denominated stony, where the soil is both rich and deep. What is meant here is evidently continued rock, with a very thin cover of earth.
Related Commentaries of Matthew 13:5
Matthew 13:5
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: