Markus 4:21

The Parable of the Lamp

4:21 He also said to them, “A lamp ¹  isn’t brought to be put under a basket ²  or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

Markus 14:49

14:49 Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet ³  you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that ⁴  the scriptures would be fulfilled.”

¹ sn The lamp is probably an ancient oil burning lamp or perhaps a candlestick. Jesus is comparing revelation to light, particularly the revelation of his ministry.

² tn Or “a bowl”; this refers to any container for dry material of about eight liters (two gallons) capacity. It could be translated “basket, box, bowl” (L&N 6.151).

³ tn Grk “and”; καί (kai) is elastic enough to be used contrastively on occasion, as here.

⁴ tn Grk “But so that”; the verb “has happened” is implied.