Mark 4:21

Is a candle brought Rather, The lamp is not brought, is it? The article here points to the simple and indispensable furniture in every Jewish household. The original word means not a candlebut a lamp. Wyclif renders it, "Whera lanternecome, thatit be put vndir a bushel?"

to be put under a bushel The original word Modiusdenotes a dry measure containing 16 sextarii, or about a peck. The English equivalent is greatly in excess of the Latin, as is noted in the margin.

a candlestick Rather, the lamp-stand. "Do not suppose that what I now commit to you in secret, I would have concealed for ever; the light is kindled by Me in you, that by your ministry it may disperse the darkness of the whole world." Erasmus.