Mark 4:14–22

^14mThe sower sows ⁿthe word. ¹⁵And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. ¹⁶And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it ^owith joy. ¹⁷And they have no root in themselves, but ^pendure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^qthey fall away.^{1 18}And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, ¹⁹but ^rthe cares of ^sthe world and ^tthe deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. ²⁰But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and ^ubear fruit, ^vthirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

A Lamp Under a Basket

^21wAnd he said to them, ^x“Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? ^22yFor nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.