The parable of the lamp under a bushel (also known as the lamp under a bowl) is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in Matthew 5:14–15, Mark 4:21–25...

A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal...

and the Lamp under a bushel, and precedes the Parable of the Mustard Seed. The parable is as follows: And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should...

(8:12). It is closely related to the parables of salt and light and lamp under a bushel, which also appear in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. In John 8:12 Jesus...

world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden. — Matthew 5:14 (World English Bible) The later verses refer to not hiding a lamp under a bushel, which...

concludes two of the three synoptic versions of the parable of the lamp under a bushel (absent in the version of Matthew): For to him who has will more...

from among you" (Deuteronomy 13:1–5). The Books of Kings records a story where, under duress from Ahab, the prophet Micaiah depicts God as requesting information...

A Latin proverb also emerged, Pelle sub agnina latitat mens saepe lupina (Under a sheep's skin often hides a wolfish mind). Although the story of a wolf...

Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a character is described as "shining quietly under a bushel of Wicklow bran". Lamp under a bushel France...

this verse as a most important message of the Torah for his teachings. Once, he was challenged by a gentile who asked to be converted under the condition...