1 again jesus began to teach by the lake.
Mark 4 lamp on a stand.
We re going to read the scriptures together please turn with me to mark s gospel chapter 4 mark chapter 4 verse 21.
21 then jesus asked them would anyone light a lamp and then put it under a basket or under a bed.
Mark 4 21 he said to them is the lamp mar mk mr.
One measure for corn and the like.
And he said unto them is a candle brought to be put under a bushel or.
Mark 4 21 25 new living translation nlt parable of the lamp.
He said to them do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed instead don t you put it on its stand mark 4 21 esv.
Instead don t you put it on its stand.
Mark lamps and bushels mark 4 21.
One lamp a flat saucer with a wick swimming in oil.
The parable of the lamp on a stand mark 4.
A lamp is placed on a stand where its light will shine.
Now we re looking at the second parable there are four in mark s gospel and we ve looked over two weeks at the parable of the sower the seed and the soil and this morning were going to look at this parable which is the parable of the lamp and its stand.
The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake while all the people were along the shore at the water s edge.
Mark 4 niv.
23 if anyone has ears to hear let them hear.
8 16 no one lights a lamp and hides it under a bowl or puts it under a bed.
21 23 jesus tells the parable of the lamp on the stand to encourage his followers to stand out to be an example and not to hide away.
A and basket be bed bowl bring brought do don t he in instead is it its lamp lampstand not on or put said saying stand the them to under was you nt gospels.
22 for everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open and every secret will be brought to light.
The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake while all the people were along the shore at the water s edge.
And he said to them is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed and not on a stand mark 4 21 kjv.
Mark 4 21 41 new international version niv a lamp on a stand.
21 he said to them do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed.
17 there is nothing hidden that won t be revealed and there is nothing secret that won t become known and come to light.
One bed raised slightly but sufficiently to.
Again jesus began to teach by the lake.
The parable of the sower.
23 anyone with ears to hear should listen.
In the original each of the nouns has the definite article attached to it and so suggests that in the house there was but one of each article.
A lamp on a stand.
21 he said to them do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed.
He taught them many things by parables a.
22 for whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
The furniture of a very humble eastern home is brought before us in this saying.
A lamp on a stand.
