19 and the (A)cares of this world, (B)the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, [a]accept it, and bear (C)fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

Light Under a Basket(D)

21 (E)Also He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:20 receive

19 but the worries of (A)the [a]world, and the (B)deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter and choke the word, and it [b]becomes unfruitful. 20 And those are the ones sown with seed on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and (C)bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.”

21 And He was saying to them, (D)A lamp is not brought to be put under a [c]basket, or under a bed, is it? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:19 Or age
  2. Mark 4:19 Or proves to be unfruitful
  3. Mark 4:21 Lit peck-measure