Mark 4:19-21
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
19 and coming-in, the anxieties[a] of the age[b] and the deceitfulness[c] of riches and the desires with respect to the other things are choking the word, and it becomes unfruitful[d]. 20 And those people are the ones having been sown[e] the seed on the good soil, who are hearing[f] the word and accepting it and bearing-fruit— thirty fold and sixty fold and a hundred fold”.
The Lamp Comes To Shine, Not To Be Hidden
21 And He was saying to them, “The lamp does not come in order that it may be put under the basket or under the bed, does it? Is it not in order that it may be put on the lampstand?
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- Mark 4:19 Or, worries, cares, concerns.
- Mark 4:19 Or, world.
- Mark 4:19 Or, deception.
- Mark 4:19 Fruitbearing is the evidence of life.
- Mark 4:20 That is, who have been sown the seed. Note the change in tense. The second two soils are ‘being sown’; they are in the process of being sown in hopes that a fruitful crop can be grown. This soil has been sown and is bearing fruit.
- Mark 4:20 That is, listening to, in the sense of ‘obeying’. Note the change of tense that stresses continuous action here (are hearing), in contrast to the first three soils.
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