20 And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and (A)bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.”

21 And He was saying to them, (B)A lamp is not brought to be put under a [a]basket, or under a bed, is it? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand? 22 (C)For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:21 Lit peck-measure

20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

A Lamp on a Stand

21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand?(A) 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.(B)

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