Luke 11:35
What does Luke 11:35 mean?
A plain-English look at Luke 11:35 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Luke 11:35 means
Based on the previous teaching about the eye as the body's lamp, Jesus issues a sober warning: "Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness." This calls for introspection and self-examination. It challenges individuals to consider whether what they perceive as spiritual insight or truth might actually be profound spiritual blindness, leading to dangerous self-deception.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862take heed, then, lest the light that <FI>is<Fi> in thee be darkness;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Context
This verse gives a direct warning and call to self-examination, flowing from the teaching about the eye as the lamp of the body. It challenges hearers to honestly assess their spiritual condition. This direct admonition sets the stage for the subsequent verse, which reinforces the positive outcome of genuine spiritual illumination, and then transitions to Jesus' confrontation with the Pharisees about their superficial righteousness.
v.34The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
v.35This passage
v.36If therefore thy whole body be full of light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining doth give thee light.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 16:25
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.
- Jeremiah 8:8
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.
- Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- 2 Peter 1:9
For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
- John 7:48
Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?
- John 9:39
And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.
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