Matthew 5:14

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 natu...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 lig...
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 on...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

light. Greek. phos . light. See App-130. world. Greek. kosmos. See App-129. A city. Safed, so placed, was within sight.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 ca...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye are the light of the world— Jesus compares his disciples to the sun, representingtheefficacyoftheirministry(accompanied by his divine Spirit), t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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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 S...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The relation of Christ's disciples to the world . Nothing corresponding to this section is found in St. Luke's sermon, but parallels occur in Luke...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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. C...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 wer...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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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 w...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lo...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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:...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Scofield Reference Notes

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:14 I. Contemplate the Christian man as light in himself. Notice some of the instances in Scripture in which light is spoken of in refere...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 — Prob...

¹⁴ Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 5:14