Matthew 5:15

5:15 People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

Matthew 6:22

6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.


tn Grk “Nor do they light.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

tn Or “a bowl”; this refers to any container for dry material of about eight liters (two gallons) capacity. It could be translated “basket, box, bowl” (L&N 6.151).

tn Or “sound” (so L&N 23.132 and most scholars). A few scholars take this word to mean something like “generous” here (L&N 57.107). partly due to the immediate context concerning money, in which case the “eye” is a metonymy for the entire person (“if you are generous”).