14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
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That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: …
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-16)Christ had lately called his disciples, and told them that they should be fishers of men ; here he tells them further what he designed them to be— the salt of the earth , and lights of the world , that they might be indeed what it was expected they should be. I. Ye are the salt of the earth . This would encourage and support them under their sufferings, that, though they should be treated with con…
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