Mark 4:21

And he said unto them, Is a lamp brought out to be put under a bushel, or under a bed, and not to be placed on a stand?

Thomas Haweis 1795 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 they who are sown on the good ground, such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty fold, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

22For there is nothing hid, but that it should be brought to light, nor is any thing concealed, but that it should come into open day.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:15Neither do men burn a lamp, and set it under a bushel, but on its stand; and it sheds light on all that are in the house.

Luke 11:33But no man lighting a lamp putteth it in a concealed place, or under a bushel, but on a stand, that they who are coming in, may see the light.

Ephesians 5:3But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh 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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