21He 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?


In Context

18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;

19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.

20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop--thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."

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?

22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

Mark 4:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And 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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said to them: Doth a candle come in to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put on the stand?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said to them, Does the lamp come that it should be put under the bushel or under the couch? Is it not that it should be set upon the lamp-stand?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put on the stand?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said to them, Is a candle brought to be put under a close vessel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21He said to them, |Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said to them, 'Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch — not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he said to them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?