19 But the cares [a]of this world, and the (A)deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things enter in, and choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

20 But they that have received seed in good ground, are they that hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit: one corn thirty, another sixty, and some an hundred.

21 [b]Also he said unto them, (B)Cometh the candle in, to be put under a bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put in a candlestick?

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 4:19 Which pertain to this life.
  2. Mark 4:21 Although the light of the Gospel be rejected of the world, yet it ought to be lighted, if it were for no other cause than this, that the wickedness of the world might be made manifest.

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