Mark 4:14–22

¹⁴The sower sows the word. ¹⁵And these are the ones beside the path where the word is sown, and whenever they hear it,^* immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. ¹⁶And these are like^k the ones sown on the rocky ground, who whenever they hear the word immediately receive it with joy. ¹⁷And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Then when^* affliction or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away. ¹⁸And others are the ones sown among the thorn plants—these are the ones who hear the word, ¹⁹and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and^* choke the word and it becomes unproductive. ²⁰And those are the ones sown on the good soil, who hear the word and receive it^* and bear fruit—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.”^l

The Parable of the Lamp

²¹And he said to them, “Surely a lamp is not brought so that it may be put under a bushel basket or under a bed, is it?^m Is it notⁿ so that it may be put on a lampstand? ²²For nothing is secret except so that it may be revealed, nor has become hidden except so that it will come to light.