The Light of the Body and Inner Purity
Luke 11:33-36
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Luke.11.33 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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Parallels
- Mark 4:21 (verbal): Uses the same lamp/bushel imagery and rhetorical question about hiding a lamp — a closely related saying in Mark's parables.
- Luke 8:16 (verbal): Near-verbatim parallel earlier in Luke: the saying about not putting a lit lamp in a hidden place or under a bed/measure.
- Matthew 5:15 (verbal): Sermon on the Mount line that explicitly echoes the lamp-under-a-basket image (’neither do they put it under a bushel’).
- Matthew 5:14-16 (thematic): Broader light-motif: disciples as light of the world and the ethical imperative to let one's light shine before others.
- Ephesians 5:8 (thematic): Uses the light/darkness motif to urge believers to live as 'children of light,' resonating with the moral purpose of the lamp image.
Alternative generated candidates
- No one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed; rather they set it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
- No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a vessel, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.
Luke.11.34 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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Parallels
- Matthew 6:22-23 (verbal): Nearly identical saying in Matthew: 'The eye is the lamp of the body... if your eye is healthy/evil, your whole body will be full of light/darkness.' (Direct verbal parallel.)
- Luke 11:35 (verbal): Immediate Lukan context that continues the same metaphor: 'See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.' (Continuation/internal parallel.)
- Matthew 5:15 (structural): Similar lamp/lampstand imagery: 'No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl... let it give light to all in the house.' (Parallel use of lamp as public moral/ethical light.)
- Proverbs 6:23 (thematic): OT wisdom imagery using lamp/light for moral instruction: 'For the commandment is a lamp; and the teaching is light.' (Thematic background for lamp-as-guidance metaphor.)
Alternative generated candidates
- The eye is the lamp of the body; therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if it is bad, your body will be full of darkness.
- Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light.
Luke.11.35 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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Parallels
- Matthew 6:23 (verbal): Uses the same wording/figurative idea: 'if then the light that is in you is darkness'—a near verbal parallel about inward light becoming darkness.
- Luke 11:34 (structural): Immediate context in Luke's Gospel: 'The lamp of the body is the eye... when your eye is sound your whole body is full of light'—the preceding verse sets up the warning of 11:35.
- John 3:20-21 (thematic): Contrast between light and darkness as moral/spiritual categories: those who do evil hate the light, while those who live by truth come to the light—echoes the warning about inward darkness.
- Ephesians 5:8-14 (thematic): Calls believers to live as 'children of light' and to expose works of darkness, paralleling the ethical consequence of having light within one’s self.
- 1 John 1:5-7 (thematic): Affirms 'God is light' and links walking in the light with fellowship and cleansing from sin—similar moral/spiritual contrast between inner light and darkness.
Alternative generated candidates
- Therefore be careful that the light within you is not darkness.
- But if your eye is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore take heed that the light in you is not darkness.
Luke.11.36 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
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Parallels
- Matthew 6:22-23 (verbal): Uses the same teaching about the eye as the lamp of the body and the contrast between a healthy/clear eye (light) and an evil/dark eye (darkness); near-verbal parallel to Luke 11:34–36.
- Luke 8:16 (verbal): Parallel lamp-imagery elsewhere in Luke: a lamp is not hidden but set to give light to all in the house, echoing the simile in 11:36 of a lamp shining with its rays.
- 1 John 1:5 (thematic): Declares that God is light and that there is no darkness in him—resonates with the idea of the whole body being without any part dark and thus entirely light.
- Ephesians 5:8-9 (thematic): Calls believers to live as children of light because they were once darkness but are now light, paralleling Luke’s emphasis on the whole person being filled with light and producing visible radiance.
Alternative generated candidates
- If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly luminous—like a lamp whose rays give light.
- If then the whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly luminous, like a lamp that, with its rays, gives light.
No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a bed, but on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light; but if it is bad, your body will be full of darkness.
Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness.
If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, having no dark part, it will be wholly full of light, as when a lamp with its rays gives light.