Matthew 5:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel,b but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. ”

Matthew 5:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Neither do men light a candle ... - The word rendered “candle” means any portable light, as a lamp, candle, lantern. Compare Mark 4:21 ; Luke 8:16 ; Luke 12:35 . Jesus proceeded here to show t...
Matthew 5:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Mt. here brings together material ( a) found scattered in Lk., ( b) peculiar to himself. Matthew 5:13-16 . Salt and Light. Good men are not only rewarded in the coming age, they help the world...
Matthew 5:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Neither . and not (Greek. ou) . App-105. candle . lamp. Greek. luchcnos. a bushel . the measure. Greek. modion = . dry measure: i.e. any measure there may happen to be in the house. on . u...
Matthew 5:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1296 CHRISTIANS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD Matthew 5:14-16 . 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...
Matthew 5:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel - A bushel...
Matthew 5:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Neither do men light a candle, &c.— This seems to be a proverbial expression. See the application that Christ makes of it on another occasion; Mark 4:21 . Luke 8:16 ; Luke 11:33 . They former...
Matthew 5:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Neither do men light a candle (or 'lamp') [ luchnon ( G...
Matthew 5:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 t...
Matthew 5:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Light a candle. — The word so rendered was probably a portable lamp rather than a candle in the common meaning of the word. The candles of the seven-branched candlestick of the Temple were undoubte...
Matthew 5:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 5:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Matthew 5:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 suggesti...
Matthew 5:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE CITY ON THE HILL ‘A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.’ Matthew 5:14 How strange and exaggerated such language must have sounded to that rude and rough company which first heard...
Matthew 5:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Neither do men light a candle ,.... Which may be read impersonally, "a candle is not lighted": and by it may be meant the Gospel, and gifts qualifying men to preach it; which, like a candle, was lig...
Matthew 5:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Ver. 15. Neither do men light a candle to put it under a bushel...
Matthew 5:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 h...
Matthew 5:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 w...
Matthew 5:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is...
Matthew 5:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

You ought also to consider the end why I have communicated of my light unto you; it is in part the same with that of men: when they light up a candle in a room, which is to show light to all those th...
Matthew 5:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 A...
Matthew 5:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Matthew 5:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:13-16 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...
Matthew 5:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:1-2 . 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 gather...
Matthew 5:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 upo...
Matthew 5:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 groun...
Matthew 5:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The same admonition under a different figure:
Matthew 5:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 25:37 ; Luke 11:33 ; Luke 8:16 ; Mark 4:21 ; Numbers 8:2
Matthew 5:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 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...
Matthew 5:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Nay, the very design of God in giving you this light was, that it might shine. Mark 4:21 ; Luke 8:16 ; Luke 11:33 .

Matthew 5:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:15 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes