Matthew 5:14
What meaning of the matthew 5:14 in the Bible?
What does Matthew 5:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."
What does Matthew 5:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid."
Verse Matthew 5:14. _YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD_] That is, the instruments which God chooses to make use of to illuminate the minds of men; as he uses the sun (to which probably he pointed) to enli...
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD - The light of the world often denotes the sun, John 11:9. The sun renders objects visible, shows their form, their nature, their beauties, their deformities. The term light is...
5. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KING CONCERNING HIS KINGDOM. CHAPTER S 5-7 _ 1. The Characteristics of the heirs of the Kingdom.(Matthew 5:1 .) 2. The Confirmation of the Law and its Expansion.(Matthew 5:...
Mt. here brings together material (_a)_ found scattered in Lk., (_b)_ peculiar to himself. MATTHEW 5:13. SALT AND LIGHT. Good men are not only rewarded in the coming age, they help the world now and...
YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. The business of the church is not only to save, but to enlighten. Christ is light and his disciples must be light. They spread the light of truth and hope, and chase aw...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (Matthew 5:1-48) As we have already seen, Matthew has a careful pattern in his gospel. In his story of the baptism of Jesus he shows us Jesus realizing that the hour has stru...
LIGHT. Greek. _phos_. light. See App-130. WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ See App-129. A CITY. _Safed,_ so placed, was within sight....
_the light of the world_ See John 8:12, where Jesus says of Himself "I am the light of the world." Cp. Philippians 2:15, "Ye shine as lights (rather -luminaries") in the world." _a city that is set o...
ΤῸ ΦΩ͂Σ ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ. See John 8:12, where Jesus says of Himself ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου. Cp. Philippians 2:15, φαίνεσθε ὡς φωστῆρες ἐν κόσμῳ. ΤΟΥ͂ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ, i.e. of the whole world, not of Israel onl...
VER 14. "YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A CITY THAT IS SET ON A HILL CANNOT BE HID." Gloss: As the doctors by their good conversation are the salt with which the people is salted; so by their word of...
_JESUS' TEACHING ABOUT INFLUENCE AND LAW MATTHEW 5:13-20:_ Those that exhibit the characteristics of the beatitudes become the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Those with humble and pure...
ΎΜΕΊΣ "вы!" (pi.), эмфаза и противопоставление. ΦΩΣ (G5457) свет. Свет был метафорой чистоты, знания истины, откровения в присутствии Бога (Carson, 139). О случаях употребления этой метафоры _см._ Lu...
DISCOURSE: 1296 CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Matthew 5:14. _Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,...
YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD— Jesus compares his disciples to the sun, representingtheefficacyoftheirministry(accompanied by his divine Spirit), to fill the world with the gladsome light of truth; a...
B. THE MISSION OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN TEXT: 5:13-16 13. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to...
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, [ to (G3588) foos (G5457) tou (G3588) kosmou (G2889)]. This being the distinctive title wh...
18-19 Compare Mar_1:16-18; Luk_5:1-11; Joh_1:40-42. 21-22 Compare Mar_1:19-20; Luk_5:10-11. 23 See Mar_1:21-39. 25 Compare Mar_3:7-8. 1-2 Compare Luk_6:20:23. 1 The “Sermon on the Mount” was prob...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT John 5:1 to John 7:29. The Sermon on the Mount: see Luke 6:20. This sermon is so similar to the sermon reported by St. Luke (Luke 6:20), that it is best to regard them as ident...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 JESUS TEACHES 5:1–7:29 INTRODUCTION This is the first of the five main sections that report what Jesus taught in Matthew’s *gospe...
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. — In its highest or truest sense the word belongs to Christ, and to Him only (John 1:9; John 8:12). The comparison to the “candle” or “lamp” in Matthew 5:15 shows, indeed, that...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
ἄλας, a late form for ἄλς, ἄλος, masculine. The properties of salt are assumed to be known. Commentators have enumerated four. Salt is pure, preserves against corruption. gives flavour to food, and as...
THE NEW SALT AND LIGHT OF HUMAN SOCIETY Matthew 5:10-16 We must expect to be persecuted, if we hold up the pure light of a consistent life amid the evils of the world. Men hate the light which expos...
In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggestiv...
Ye are the (f) light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. (f) You shine and give light by being made partakers of the true light....
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE_ ‘Ye are the light of the world.… Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.’ Matthew 5:14; M...
Matthew 5:14_Ye are the light of the world _We are all the children of light, after having been enlightened by faith, and are commanded to carry in our hands “burning lamps,” (that we may not wander i...
He then gathers around Him those who were definitively to follow Him in His ministry and His temptations; and, at His call, to link their portion and their lot with His, forsaking all beside. The str...
YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD,.... What the luminaries, the sun and moon, are in the heavens, with respect to corporal light, that the apostles were in the world with regard to spiritual light; carryi...
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Ver. 14. _Ye are the light of the world_] And must therefore lead convincing lives, though ye incur never so much hatred of...
_Ye are the light of the world_ The effect of light being to make things manifest, Ephesians 5:13, and to direct us in the way in which we are to walk; the import of this metaphor is, that Christ had...
LIGHT; that which shows things as they are, and gives to men right views of them....
YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A CITY THAT IS SET ON A HILL CANNOT BE HID....
From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him we...
13-16 Ye are the salt of the earth. Mankind, lying in ignorance and wickedness, were as a vast heap, ready to putrify; but Christ sent forth his disciples, by their lives and doctrines to season it wi...
You that are to be my apostles are so eminently, but all you that are my disciples are so also. Christ is the Light of the world 1 THESSALONIANS 1:4,9; but though the sun be the light of the world, ye...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But He is the Creator, who does also through Christ prepare lights in the world, [namely] those who believe from among the Gentiles. And He says, "Ye are the light o...
Matthew 5:14 You G5210 are G2075 (G5748) light G5457 world G2889 city G4172 set G2749 (G5740) on G1883 hill G3735 cannot G3756 G1410 (G5736) hidden G2928 (G5650) the light - Proverbs 4:18;...
THE PERSECUTION OF THE GODLY, AND THE BLESSEDNESS THAT IS SEEN TO BE THEIRS AS A RESULT. THEY WILL THEREFORE BE LIKE THE PROPHETS OF OLD WHO WERE ALSO PERSECUTED, AND WILL BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH AND...
The scene (Matthew 5:1), the formal preface of the Evangelist (Matthew 5:2); the opening description of the citizens of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3-10); their relation to the world (Matthew 5:1...
WORLD "kosmos", means "mankind." (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
Matthew 5:13 Influence of Christian Character. I. Christians such Christians as those to whom the Beatitudes of the previous verses belong are called to be, and will be, the "salt of the earth," and...
Matthew 5:1. _And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,-_ Our Saviour soon gathered a...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the mount. Beatitudes. Believer as salt and light. Christ's relation to the law. Divorce. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: The relationship of a child of God will be manifeste...
Matthew 5:1. _Seeing the multitudes,_ assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upon t...
YOU ARE LIKE LIGHT. Light is symbolic of truth. Christians are to spread truth to destroy ignorance. A _city._ Ancient cities were built on hills for defence, and were clearly visible. So should Chris...
_Ye are the light of the world._ CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD The Church can diffuse light. 1. By reflection. 2. By dispersing it. (_L H. Evans, M. A._) THE CHURCH OF CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 5:1 The Authoritative Message of the Messiah: Kingdom Life for His Disciples. This is the first of five major teaching sections in Matthew 1:1 (chs. Matthew 5:1; Matthew 10:1;...
JESUS TEACHES ABOUT BEING THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD MATTHEW 5:14-16; MARK 4:21-22; LUKE 8:16-18; LUKE 11:33-36; MATTHEW 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Jo...
CHAPTER 5 _Went up into a mountain._ Let us inquire what mountain this was? "Some simple brethren," says S. Jerome, "think that Christ taught the Beatitudes, and the things which follow, on the mount...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT _The aim and contents of the_ “_Sermon_.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and po...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 5:1 AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES; _i.e. _those spoken of in Matthew 4:25—the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. HE WENT UP. From the lower ground by the lake. I...
Tonight we have the Sermon on the Mount, what a fantastic portion of scripture. Matthew five, And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he has sat down, his disciples came unto...
1 Thessalonians 5:5; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:8; Genesis 11:4; John 12:36; John 5:35; Philippians 2:15; Proverbs 4:18; Revelation 1:20;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great crowd of...
Ye are the light of the world — If ye are thus holy, you can no more be hid than the sun in the firmament: no more than a city on a mountain — Probably pointing to that on the brow of the opposite hil...
Are believers the light of the world, or is Jesus? PROBLEM: In this passage, Jesus said to His disciples, “You are the light of the world.” However, in John 9:5, Jesus declared, “I am the light of th...
Observe here, 1. Our Saviour's doctrine. 2. The inference which he draws from it by way of application. The doctrine delivered is this, That Christians in general and the ministers of the gospel in...