Luke 6:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

Luke 6:40 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 13:16
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Matthew 10:24-25
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. …
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-49)

All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in Matt. 7:1-29, others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply them. Grotius thinks that we need not be critical here in seeking for the coherence: they are golden sentences, like Solomon’s proverbs or parables. Let us observe here, I. We ought to be very ca…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 40)

40. The disciple, &c.--that is, “The disciple aims to come up to his master, and he thinks himself complete when he does so: if you then be blind leaders of the blind, the perfection of one’s training under you will only land him the more certainly in one common ruin with yourselves.”