What is the meaning of Matt 6/22 23?
What is the meaning of Matt 6/22 23?
If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! (Mt 6:22–23)1. Jesus alludes to ancient conventions of the eye and light in his teaching on treasures, undivided loyalties and anxiety with regard to the necessities of life.
What is Matthew chapter 6 all about?
The first part of this chapter, Matthew 6:1–18, deals with the outward and inward expression of piety, referring to almsgiving, private prayer and fasting. The second part in Matthew 6:25–34 deals with trust in God and also has three elements and provides reasons for not being anxious.
Do not worry what you will eat or wear?
your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet. for your body, what you will wear.
How many sparrows can 2 copper coins buy?
If two sparrows could be purchased for a cent, then a person should get only four sparrows for two cents. So the fifth sparrow must have been the incentive offered by merchants to get people to buy four sparrows. Jesus used this buy-four-get-one-free practice to illustrate how much God values life.
What is the meaning of Matthew 6 21?
This verse states that if one places one’s treasure in heaven that is where one’s heart or attention will be. This is an implicit warning, which is made clear later in the chapter, that if one’s treasure is on earth, one’s heart and attention will also be on earthly matters, to the exclusion of God.
What is the meaning of Matthew 6 22?
Interpretation. By lamp, this verse may mean that the eye is a metaphorical window by which light enters the body. This verse can thus mean one is “full of light” if one’s eye, i.e. conscience, is generous. This wording links this verse to the idea of the evil eye, which was often termed the “ungenerous eye”.
