Sentences with phrase «lamp under a bushel»

After the interpretation of this parable, Mark and Luke have the saying used by Matthew in the Sermon on the Mount about putting a lamp under a bushel or a bed (Mt 5:15; Mk 4:21; Lk 8:16), followed by the statement, «For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light» (Mk 4:22; Lk 8:17).

Then, as though continuing the same discourse, Luke quotes the saying about putting a lamp under a bushel and the one about the eye as the lamp of the body, which Matthew has used in the Sermon on the Mount (Lk 11:33 - 36; Mt 5:15; 6:22 - 23).

Or again, putting a lamp under a bushel certainly reduces the chance of having it blown out, but the price for such protection is darkness.

For people of faith, especially evangelicals, the principle of publicly living and witnessing your beliefs — of not «hiding your lamp under a bushel» as it says in the Matthew gospel — is a central tenet of faith.

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Matthew 5:15 «Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.»

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