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Mark 4:19-21
Lexham English Bible
Mark 4:19-21
Lexham English Bible
19 and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and[a] choke the word and it becomes unproductive. 20 And those are the ones sown on the good soil, who hear the word and receive it[b] and bear fruit—one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much.”[c]
The Parable of the Lamp
21 And 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?[d] Is it not[e] so that it may be put on a lampstand?
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- Mark 4:19 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“come in”) has been translated as a finite verb
- Mark 4:20 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Mark 4:20 The phrase “times as much” is not in the Greek text but is implied
- Mark 4:21 The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “is it”
- Mark 4:21 The negative construction in Greek anticipates a positive answer here
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