A Lesson from the Stony Soil In the Gospel of Mark chapter 4, Jesus describes four types of soil in His famous Parable of the Sower. Each one represents a different condition of the human heart. Last week, we talked about the hard soil , or the trampled heart. Today, we turn our attention to the stony soil —what Jesus calls the shallow heart . “Some seed fell on rocky places where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow. But when the sun c