If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.If thy whole body be full of light — If thou art filled with holy wisdom, having no part dark, giving way to no sin or folly, then that heavenly principle will, like the clear flame of a lamp in a room that was dark before, shed its light into all thy powers and faculties. read more
§ 42. HEALING THE DEMONIAC AND THE BLASPHEMY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, Luke 11:14-23 ; Matthew 12:24-30; Mark 3:22-30. read more
§ 43. PARABLE OF THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT, Luke 11:24-26 ; Matthew 12:43-45. The entire passages, 14-26; 29-36, find their parallel in Matthew 12:0, but the order is evidently most perfectly observed in Matthew. read more
27. Lifted up her voice Her feminine tones overtopping all other sounds in the crowd. read more
§ 44. THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHRIST’S MOTHER MAY BE EXTENDED TO ALL THE HOLY, Luke 11:27-28 . Luke alone preserves a remarkable interruption of the discourse of Jesus by a hearty but intelligent ejaculation of a mother present. She sympathizes with Jesus as a great Rabbi, but especially, we suppose, in his eloquent denunciations of that class who not only blasphemed him, but devoured widow’s houses! read more
28. Yea Jesus accepts the mother’s blessing upon his mother. His mother is blessed in being his mother, as she herself had predicted. Luke 1:48. Yea, she was blessed with the maternity of the Messiah because she heard the word of God and kept it. The blessedness of such a doing is thus superior to the bodily blessing of being mother to even such a son. And how repeatedly does Jesus pronounce the securement of our own salvation to be superior to every other interest. It is superior to... read more
§ 43. THE SEEKING FOR A SIGN, Luke 11:29-32 . Matthew 12:38-45. read more
33-36. See notes on Matthew 5:15-16; Matthew 6:22-23. Our Lord here repeats the images and illustrations used in the parallel passages of the Sermon on the Mount. The connection here is clear. If his hearers’ light had not been darkened, they would have seen that he was a greater than Jonah. read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Luke 11:34
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.But when thine eye is evil — When thou aimest at any thing else, thou wilt be full of folly, sin, and misery. On the contrary, Matthew 6:22. read more