The Lamp of the Body

33 “No(A) one lights a lamp(B) and puts it in the cellar or under a basket,[a] but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of the body.(C) When your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad,(D) your body is also full of darkness. 35 Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness. 36 If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:33 Other mss omit or under a basket
  2. Luke 11:36 Or shines on you with its rays

Light and Darkness

33 “No one after[a] lighting a lamp puts it[b] in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body is dark also. 35 Therefore pay careful attention that the light in you is not darkness! 36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be completely full of light, as when the lamp with its light gives light to you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:33 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lighting”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 11:33 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation