Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Mark 4:25

"For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath." — Mark 4:25 (ASV)

The parable of the measure begins with an exhortation to spiritual perception. The more one listens to the word of Jesus with spiritual perception and appropriates it, the more the truth about Jesus will be revealed. Furthermore, the more one appropriates the truth now, the more one will receive in the future. On the other hand, whoever does not lay hold of the word now, even the little spiritual perception that person has will be taken away.