TGBC Saturday, January 9 2021. Mark 4:21-34

 

Mark4:21-34. A Translation: The New Testament. David Bentley Hart. 2017.

21 And he said to them: "Does the lamp arrive that it may be placed under the dry-goods basket or under the bed? Not that it may be placed on the lampstand? 22 For there is nothing that is hidden except that it might be made manifest, not that has become concealed except that it might come out into plain sight. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen." 

24 And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it shall be meted out to you and will be added to you. 25 For he who has, to him it will be given; and he who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him." 

26 And he said, "Such is the Kingdom of God: just as a man might cast the seed upon the earth, 27 And might sleep and arise night and day, and the seed sprouts and increases while he does not observe. 28 The earth bears fruit of itself, first a shoot, then an ear, then the full grain within the ear. 29 But, when the fruit permits, he immediately extends the scythe, because the harvest has come." 

30 And he said, "How may we depict the Kingdom of God, or by what parable may we present it? 31 As a grain of mustard that, when sown upon the soil, is smaller than all the seeds on earth, 32 And when it is sown it rises up and becomes larger than all the garden-herbs, and produces great branches, so that the birds of the sky are able to shelter under its shade." 

33 And he spoke the word to them in many such parables, according to what they were able to hear. 34 And he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his disciples. 

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Mark: I love the good spell per Mark, who for me relates the story first, concise, unembellished. Matthew and Luke must've loved it too, seeing they lifted from it for much of their own gospel accounts. 

The above text is from one of my two new books, English translations of the New Testament. They are different in theory of rendition. Both authors are scholars, sparring not gently. So far, I'm loving them both. Today from Hart.

Tomorrow from Wright, and a different path to Shrove Tuesday.

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