Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Mark

ursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful. 004:020 Those, on the other hand, who have received the seed on the good ground, are all who hear the Message and welcome it, and yield a return of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold." 004:021 He went on to say, "Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand? 004:022 Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light. 004:023 Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!" 004:024 He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest. 004:025 For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away." 004:026 Another saying of His was this: "The Kingdom of God is as if a man scattered seed over the gro