What Does Mark 4:22 Mean in the King James?
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The secret is not a sealed container; this verse points concealment toward the open.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you with a present truth: hiddenness is not the final condition; what is concealed moves toward visibility. It says this twice, as something made manifest and as something coming into the open.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what is hidden can remain forever beyond disclosure.
THE ROOT
κρυπτόν
kryptón
GROWS FROM
κρυπ-
kryp-
to hide or conceal
“hid” in this verse is kryptón. The Greek names concealment twice: κρυπτόν (kryptón, “hidden”) and ἀπόκρυφον (apókryphon, “secret”) share the κρυπ- family. Both are set within a movement toward visibility, so secrecy is not presented as a final state.
ALSO GROWS
kryptō: to hide or conceal
κρύπτω
The verb behind this family makes the verse’s act of hiding explicit.
apókryphos: hidden away, secret
ἀπόκρυφος
This related form appears in the verse as “kept secret,” echoing “hid” in the same root family.
φανερωθῇ
phanerōthē
GROWS FROM
φανερ-
phaner-
visible or apparent; to bring into visibility
The KJV renders this family as “manifested” here and “come abroad” later in the verse. Both point toward the same destination: becoming visible, stated twice as the sentence’s movement out of concealment.
ALSO GROWS
phanerós: visible, evident
φανερός
The verse says the secret comes into what is visible.
phanérōsis: manifestation, making visible
φανέρωσις
This related noun carries the same movement expressed by “shall be manifested.”
THE PATTERN
What is concealed comes into disclosure, where it can be seen, known, or brought to account.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.THE THREAD
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.Matthew repeats κρυπτόν (kryptón, “hidden”), the same Greek word used here, and links concealment with revelation. Mark points toward what becomes visible; Matthew adds what becomes known.
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