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In Mark, Jesus says things are concealed only so that they can be revealed. Luke turns this into a plain promise that all of it will come to light, and the Gospel of Thomas agrees exactly with Luke's form, not Mark's.
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Mark 4:22
New Testament
21 He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand? 22 For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!”
Luke 8:17
New Testament
16 “No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light. 17 For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light. 18 So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
Gospel of Thomas 1:5
Nag Hammadi
4 Jesus said, “The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will become last, and they will become one and the same.” 5 Jesus said, “Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.” 6 His disciples questioned him and said to him, “Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give alms? What diet should we observe?” Jesus said, “Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are disclosed before heaven. Nothing hidden will fail to be revealed, and nothing covered will remain undisclosed.”
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“... The fifth Coptic saying: 'Jesus said, "Know what is before your face, and that which is hidden from you will be revealed to you. For (gar) there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed"' (81:10-14). [...] 28. [to kekalymmenon]: This part of the saying is variously preserved in the Synoptic tradition, with Luke giving us two versions of it. See Mk 4:22-Lk 8:17 and Mt [...]-Lk 12:2 (Huck-Lietzmann, Synopse, p. 74). 'In the first of these groups, where Luke is clearly dependent upon Mark, the Saying occurs in a series of disconnected logia and is therefore without context; but in the second we find it in the Charge to the Twelve (Matth. x 5 ff.), or to the Seventy (Luke x 1 ff.), though the third evangelist defers some of the most characteristic matter—including the parallel to the present Saying—to chapter xii. Our authorities for the Saying in its two-fold form are, then, Mark (for Group I) and Q (for Group II) .... Grenfell and Hunt consider it to agree with Matthew and Luke (Group II) in general arrangement, but with Mark in the language of the first clause of the second half. ... Now the first clause of the second half of Saying IV coincides word for word with the Lucan parallel in Group I, and it therefore seems likely that Mark should be left out of the matter altogether .... It may, then, be claimed that the Saying is dependent partly upon the Q tradition, and partly upon the Lucan version of Mark's tradition' (Evelyn White, p. 18). Actually, the saying which is preserved in the Oxyrhynchus fragment and in the Coptic version is not exactly identical with any of the canonical forms of the saying; the greatest similarity is found in the third member of the saying with the beginning of Lk 8:17, while the second member best resembles Mt [...], but the canonical version is in the negative, whereas the saying here is positive. ...”
Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament
(pp. 381-383) Scholars Press, 1971
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