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Mark 4:20-22
New English Translation
Mark 4:20-22
New English Translation
20 But[a] these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred.”
The Parable of the Lamp
21 He also said to them, “A lamp[b] isn’t brought to be put under a basket[c] or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand? 22 For nothing is hidden except to be revealed,[d] and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.
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- Mark 4:20 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
- Mark 4:21 sn The lamp is probably an ancient oil burning lamp or perhaps a candlestick. Jesus is comparing revelation to light, particularly the revelation of his ministry.
- Mark 4:21 tn Or “a bowl”; this refers to any container for dry material of about eight liters (two gallons) capacity. It could be translated “basket, box, bowl” (L&N 6.151).
- Mark 4:22 tn Or “disclosed.”
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