Luke 6:40

New Century Version

A student is not better than the teacher, but the student who has been fully trained will be like the teacher.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Students are not better than their teacher. But when they have been fully taught, they will be like their teacher.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The disciple is not above his master. Every ma shalbe perfecte even as his master is.

Hebrew Names Version
A talmid is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

International Standard Version
A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher.Matthew 10:24; John 13:16; 15:20;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"A student is not above the teacher; but everyone, when he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

Update Bible Version
The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.

Webster's Bible Translation
The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect, shall be as his master.

Amplified Bible
"A student is not superior to his teacher; but everyone, after he has been completely trained, will be like his teacher.

English Standard Version
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

World English Bible
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The disciple is not above his master, but every one that is perfected, shall be as his master.

Weymouth's New Testament
There is no disciple who is superior to his teacher; but every one whose instruction is complete will be like his teacher.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A disciple is not aboue the maistir; but eche schal be perfite, if he be as his maister.

English Revised Version
The disciple is not above his master: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his master.

Berean Standard Bible
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Contemporary English Version
Are students better than their teacher? But when they are fully trained, they will be like their teacher.

American Standard Version
The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.

Bible in Basic English
The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

Complete Jewish Bible
A talmid is not above his rabbi; but each one, when he is fully trained, will be like his rabbi.

Darby Translation
The disciple is not above his teacher, but every one that is perfected shall be as his teacher.

Etheridge Translation
The disciple than his master is not greater; but every man who is perfect shall be as his master.

Murdock Translation
No disciple is better than his teacher; for whoever is perfect, will be like his teacher.

King James Version (1611)
The disciple is not aboue his master: but euery one that is perfect shalbe as his master.

New Living Translation
Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher.

New Life Bible
The follower is not more important than his teacher. But everyone who learns well will be like his teacher.

New Revised Standard
A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The disciple is not aboue his master: but whosoeuer will be a perfect disciple, shall bee as his master.

George Lamsa Translation
There is no disciple who is more important than his teacher; for every man who is well developed will be like his teacher.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A disciple is not above the teacher; but, when trained, every one shall be as his teacher.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

Revised Standard Version
A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one when he is fully taught will be like his teacher.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The disciple is not aboue his maister: But whosoeuer wylbe a perfect disciple, shalbe as his maister is.

Good News Translation
No pupils are greater than their teacher; but all pupils, when they have completed their training, will be like their teacher.

Christian Standard Bible®
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

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

Lexham English Bible
A disciple is not superior to his teacher, but everyone, when he is fully trained, will be like his teacher.

Literal Translation
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who has been perfected will be like his teacher.

Young's Literal Translation
A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one perfected shall be as his teacher.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The disciple is not aboue his master. But whosoeuer is perfecte, ye same shalbe as his master.

Mace New Testament (1729)
The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

New English Translation
A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

New King James Version
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.

Simplified Cowboy Version
A new cowboy is not better than the top hand who teaches him, but the student can eventually become like him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

Legacy Standard Bible
A student is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

Contextual Overview

³⁷ "Don't judge others, and you will not be judged. Don't accuse others of being guilty, and you will not be accused of being guilty. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. ³⁸ Give, and you will receive. You will be given much. Pressed down, shaken together, and running over, it will spill into your lap. The way you give to others is the way God will give to you." ³⁹ Jesus told them this story: "Can a blind person lead another blind person? No! Both of them will fall into a ditch. ⁴⁰ A student is not better than the teacher, but the student who has been fully trained will be like the teacher. ⁴¹ "Why do you notice the little piece of dust in your friend's eye, but you don't notice the big piece of wood in your own eye? ⁴² How can you say to your friend, ‘Friend, let me take that little piece of dust out of your eye' when you cannot see that big piece of wood in your own eye! You hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your friend's eye. ⁴³ "A good tree does not produce bad fruit, nor does a bad tree produce good fruit. ⁴⁴ Each tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thornbushes, and they don't get grapes from bushes. ⁴⁵ Good people bring good things out of the good they stored in their hearts. But evil people bring evil things out of the evil they stored in their hearts. People speak the things that are in their hearts. ⁴⁶ "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

disciple: Matthew 10:24, Matthew 10:25, John 13:16, John 15:20

that is perfect shall be as his master: or, shall be perfected as his master, Matthew 23:15

Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:22 - the instruction Isaiah 56:10 - are blind Matthew 5:48 - ye Matthew 19:21 - If

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The disciple is not above his master,.... Or "more excellent", as the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions render it; that is, in learning and knowledge; if the master is ignorant, the scholar will be so too; and thus it is with teachers, and their people under their care; if the leaders are blind and ignorant, those under their instructions will remain so likewise. These words are an illustration of the preceding parable, and are used to another purpose here than in Matthew 10:24.

Matthew 10:24- :

but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. The Vulgate Latin reads it, "every one shall be perfect if he is as his master"; that is, if his master is a man of general learning, and a complete scholar, if he is like him, he will be so too: the Persic version renders it, "every disciple that desires perfection shall be as his master": whoever is ambitious of being a thorough scholar, and is diligent and industrious, by all ways and means, to obtain such a character, shall be even as good an one as his master, under whom he learns, and better he cannot well expect to be; and this is sufficient; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "is it not enough that every one be as his master?" agreeably to Matthew 10:25

Maimonides i has an expression much like this:

"he that learns, shall not be greater than he of whom he learns, but shall be, כמותו, "as he".''

Christ, in this last clause, seems to design his own disciples, who, when perfect in knowledge, which is not to be expected in this state, unless in a comparative sense, will be like himself.

i Misn. Bava Kama, c. 2. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7.

Luke 6:21

That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully what Luke has briefly, but there is no contradiction.

Luke 6:24-26

These verses have been omitted by Matthew. They seem to have been spoken to the Pharisees.

Who are rich - In this world’s goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that they would not seek or receive consolation from the gospel. They were proud, and would not seek it; satisfied, and did not desire it; filled with cares, and had no time or disposition to attend to it. All the consolation which they had reason to expect they had received. Alas! how poor and worthless is such consolation, compared with that which the gospel would give!

Woe unto you that are full! - Not hungry. Satisfied with their wealth, and not feeling their need of anything better than earthly wealth can give. Many, alas! are thus “full.” They profess to be satisfied. They desire nothing but wealth, and a sufficiency to satisfy the wants of the body. They have no anxiety for the riches that shall endure forever.

Ye shall hunger - Your property shall be taken away, or you shall see that it is of little value; and then you shall see the need of something better. You shall feel your want and wretchedness, and shall “hunger” for something to satisfy the desires of a dying, sinful soul.

That laugh now - Are happy, or thoughtless, or joyful, or filled with levity.

Shall mourn and weep - The time is coming when you shall sorrow deeply. In sickness, in calamity, in the prospect of death, in the fear of eternity, your laughter shall be turned into sorrow. “There is” a place where you cannot laugh, and there you will see the folly of having passed the “proper time” of preparing for such scenes in levity and folly. Alas! how many thus spend their youth! and how many weep when it is too late! God gives them over, and “laughs” at their “calamity,” and mocks when their fear comes, Proverbs 1:26. To be happy in “such scenes,” it is necessary to be sober, humble, pious in early life. “Then” we need not weep in the day of calamity; then there will be no terror in death; then there will be nothing to fear in the grave.

Luke 6:26

When all men shall speak well of you - When they shall praise or applaud you. The people of the world will not praise or applaud “my” doctrine; they are “opposed” to it, and therefore, if they speak well of “you” and of “your teachings,” it is proof that you do not teach the true doctrine. If you do “not” do this, then there will be woe upon you. If men teach false doctrines for true; if they declare that God has spoken that which he has not spoken, and if they oppose what he “has” delivered, then heavy punishments will await them.

For so did their fathers - The fathers or ancestors of this people; the ancient Jews.

To the false prophets - Men who pretended to be of God - who delivered their “own” doctrines as the truth of God, and who accommodated themselves to the desires of the people. Of this number were the prophets of Baal, the false prophets who appeared in the time of Jeremiah, etc.

Luke 6:27, Luke 6:28

See Matthew 5:44-45.

Luke 6:29

See Matthew 5:39-40.

Luke 6:30

See Matthew 5:42.

Luke 6:31

See Matthew 7:12.

Luke 6:32-36

See Matthew 5:46-48.

Luke 6:37-42

See Matthew 7:1-9.

Luke 6:38

Good measure - They shall give you good measure, or “full” measure.

Pressed down - As figs or grapes might be, and thus many more might be put into the measure.

Shaken together - To make it more compact, and thus to give more.

Running over - So full that the measure would overflow.

Shall men give - This is said to be the reward of “giving” to the poor and needy; and the meaning is that the man who is liberal will find others liberal to him in dealing with them, and when he is also in circumstances of want. A man who is himself kind to the poor - who has that “character” established - will find many who are ready to help “him” abundantly when he is in want. He that is parsimonious, close, niggardly, will find few or none who will aid him.

Into your bosom - That is, to you. The word “bosom” here has reference to a custom among Oriental nations of making the bosom or front part of their garments large, so that articles could be carried in them, answering the purpose of our pockets. Compare Exodus 4:6-7; Proverbs 6:27; Ruth 3:15.

Luke 6:39

A parable - A proverb or similitude.

Can the blind lead the blind? - See the notes at Matthew 15:14.

Luke 6:40

The disciple is not ... - The learner is not above his teacher, does not know more, and must expect to fare no better. This seems to have been spoken to show them that they were not to expect that their disciples would go “beyond them” in attainments; that if they were blind, their followers would be also; and that therefore it was important for them to understand fully the doctrines of the gospel, and not to be blind leaders of the blind.

Every one that is perfect - The word rendered “is perfect” means sometimes to repair or mend, and is thus applied to mending nets, Matthew 4:21; Mark 1:19. Hence, it means to repair or amend in a moral sense, or to make whole or complete. Here it means, evidently, “thoroughly instructed” or “informed.” The Christian should be like his Master - holy, harmless, and undefiled, and separate from sinners. He should copy his example, and grow into the likeness of his Redeemer. Nor can any other be a Christian.

Luke 6:41, Luke 6:42

See the notes at Matthew 7:3-5.

Luke 6:43, Luke 6:44

See the notes at Matthew 7:16-18.

Luke 6:45

This verse is not found in the sermon on the mount as recorded by Matthew, but is recorded by him in Matthew 12:35. See the notes at that passage.

Luke 6:46-49

See the notes at Matthew 7:21-27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. Every one that is perfect — Or, thoroughly instructed, κατηρτισμενος: - from καταρτιζω, to adjust, adapt, knit together, restore, or put in joint. The noun is used by the Greek medical writers to signify the reducing a luxated or disjointed limb. It sometimes signifies to repair or mend, and in this sense it is applied to broken nets, Matthew 4:21; Mark 1:19; but in this place, and in Hebrews 13:21; 2 Timothy 3:17, it means complete instruction and information. Every one who is thoroughly instructed in Divine things, who has his heart united to God, whose disordered tempers and passions are purified and restored to harmony and order; every one who has in him the mind that was in Christ, though he cannot be above, yet will be as, his teacher - holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners.

"The disciple who perfectly understands the rules and sees the example of his master, will think it his business to tread exactly in his steps, to do and suffer upon like occasions, as his master did: and so he will be like his master." WHITBY.