Mark 4:21

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

1770 John Worsley NT

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 like seed sown on 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 hidden, which may not be revealed; nor was there any thing concealed, but in order to become manifest.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:15Nor do men light a candle, to put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick: and then it giveth light to all in the house.

Luke 11:33But yet no one having lighted a candle putteth it into a secret place, nor under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they who come in may see the light.

Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it 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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