Luke 11:34

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, ¹  your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, ²  your body is full of darkness.

Ge 19:11; 2Ki 6:15-20; Ps 81:12; Ps 119:18; Pr 28:22; Isa 6:10; Isa 29:10; Isa 42:19; Isa 44:18; Jer 5:21; Mt 6:22,23; Mr 4:12; Mr 7:22; Mr 8:18; Ac 2:46; Ac 13:11; Ac 26:18; Ro 11:8-10; 2Co 1:12; 2Co 4:4; 2Co 11:3; Eph 1:17; Eph 6:5; Col 3:22; 2Th 2:9-12

¹ 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 of this saying in Matt 6:22 which concerns money, in which case the “eye” is a metonymy for the entire person (“if you are generous”).

² tn Or “when it is sick” (L&N 23.149).

sn There may be a slight wordplay here, as this term can also mean “evil,” so the figure uses a term that points to the real meaning of being careful as to what one pays attention to or looks at.