Section 9
lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is single, your whole body also is illuminated; but when it is evil, your body also is dark. Watch out therefore, that the light which is in you be not darkness. If therefore your whole body is illuminated, not having any part dark, the whole shall be illuminated as when the lamp with its bright shining illuminates you." The Greek word rendered "illuminated" in verse 34 may also be translated "full of light" or "bright." Here the Lord is saying that when our eye is single, our whole body will be full of light.
Our eyes can focus on only one thing at a time. If we try to see two things at once, our sight will be blurred. If we focus our eyes on one thing, our sight will be single, and our whole body will be illuminated.
In verse 35 the Lord speaks about "the light which is in you." The light in us, which the eye illuminates (v. 34), is the light in our heart, which should be kept pure for God (Matt. 5:8).
REBUKING THE PHARISEES
AND LAWYERS
In Luke 11:37-54 we have a record of the Man- Savior rebuking the Pharisees and the lawyers. Verse 37 says, "Now as He spoke, a Pharisee asks