Mark tells THE (Real Ruler's) "Good-News". Chapter 4 [Pericope 24]

Pericope  24 - Listen and live. … Don't, and you won't!

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And he was saying then to them, "No lamp 

is brought in(to a space) so that it might 

be put into a water-closet damp, 

or under basket, it's given some height!

It isn't brought to underneath a bed.

And isn't it put onto a lampstand?

Like maybe think of presents for a wed-

ding, or a birthday party that's at hand,

they're often wrapped and hidden - just at first!

But not because they aren't meant to be seen.

They're only wrapped to heighten (not to burst!)

desire and guessing fun. Know what I mean?

For there is nothing hidden that won't be

made obvious to ev'ryone around,

No secret thing that's done so none can see,

will stay that way, the light will come around!

"If anyone has ears to hear," he said

(like God said at creation, with no fear 

"Let there be.. light.." so eyes, (not gone to bed)

could see. But he says now, just "let them hear!"

And he was saying to them, "Careful now,

with what you hear, and maybe how you do

it, for the measure you use to, somehow,

make meaning, will be what is used for you,

and your method or stance, will also be 

then added to, by those who learn from you.

So check if you are quick to listen, "see",

what they would say, in what they say - and do.

A secret law of life, to swallow down

is "Those who have, will find they're given more

and those who do not have (don't sit and frown!)

will find their stuff is taken even more!

So learn to count the things that you now have,

and build upon those opportunities.

For people who watch on will help you nav-

i-gate hard times when they see what you seize!

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21Καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς· μήτι ἔρχεται ὁ λύχνος ἵνα ὑπὸ τὸν μόδιον τεθῇ ἢ ὑπὸ τὴν κλίνην; οὐχ ἵνα ἐπὶ τὴν λυχνίαν τεθῇ; 22οὐ γάρ ἐστιν κρυπτὸν ἐὰν μὴ ἵνα φανερωθῇ, οὐδὲ ἐγένετο ἀπόκρυφον ἀλλ’ ἵνα ἔλθῃ εἰς φανερόν. 23εἴ τις ἔχει ὦτα ἀκούειν ἀκουέτω. 24Καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς· βλέπετε τί ἀκούετε. ἐν ᾧ μέτρῳ μετρεῖτε μετρηθήσεται ὑμῖν καὶ προστεθήσεται ὑμῖν. 25ὃς γὰρ ἔχει, δοθήσεται αὐτῷ· καὶ ὃς οὐκ ἔχει, καὶ ὃ ἔχει ἀρθήσεται ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ. Mark 4:21-25  NA28

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