A moment in scripture
Mark 4:21
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And 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?
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
- Mark 4:20
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
- Mark 4:22
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
- Mark 4:23
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.