Mark 4:22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

English Standard Version
For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.

New American Standard Bible
"For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

King James Bible
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For nothing is concealed except to be revealed, and nothing hidden except to come to light.

International Standard Version
Nothing is hidden except for the purpose of having it revealed, and nothing is secret except for the purpose of having it come to light.

American Standard Version
For there is nothing hid, save that it should be manifested; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be made manifest: neither was it made secret, but that it may come abroad.

Darby Bible Translation
For there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest; nor does any secret thing take place, but that it should come to light.

Young's Literal Translation
for there is not anything hid that may not be manifested, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:21-34 These declarations were intended to call the attention of the disciples to the word of Christ. By his thus instructing them, they were made able to instruct others; as candles are lighted, not to be covered, but to be placed on a candlestick, that they may give light to a room. This parable of the good seed, shows the manner in which the kingdom of God makes progress in the world. Let but the word of Christ have the place it ought to have in a soul, and it will show itself in a good conversation. It grows gradually: first the blade; then the ear; after that the full corn in the ear. When it is sprung up, it will go forward. The work of grace in the soul is, at first, but the day of small things; yet it has mighty products even now, while it is in its growth; but what will there be when it is perfected in heaven!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

22. For there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested, &c.—See on [1428]Mt 10:26, 27; but the connection there and here is slightly different. Here the idea seems to be this—"I have privately expounded to you these great truths, but only that ye may proclaim them publicly; and if ye will not, others will. For these are not designed for secrecy. They are imparted to be diffused abroad, and they shall be so; yea, a time is coming when the most hidden things shall be brought to light."