Mark 4:19-21

Modern English Version

¹⁹ But the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. ²⁰ Still others are seed sown on good ground, those who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit: thirty, sixty, or a hundred times as much.”

A Light Under a Basket^(A)

²¹ He said to them, “Is a candle brought to be put under a basket or under a bed and not to be set on a candlestick?