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

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