Mark 4:21

Also He said to them: “The lamp is not brought to be put under a box or under a bed, is it? Is it not to be placed on its stand?

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

In Context

20And these are the ones sown on the good ground: such people hear the Word, welcome it and produce fruit—thirty times as much, sixty times as much, even a hundred times as much.”

22For there is no ‘hidden’ that may not be exposed, nor has anything been concealed but that it should come to light.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:15Nor do they light a lamp and place it under the hamper, but on the lampstand, and it shines on everything in the house.

Luke 11:33“No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in hiding or under a basket, but on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

Ephesians 5:3But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints);

Matthew Henry on Mark 4:2-21

The Parable of the Sower. 1 And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. 2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, 3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: 4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. 5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had… Read the whole commentary →

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