Matthew 4:16
The people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death—light arose to them.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations!
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, || Let a cloud dwell on it, || Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
Job 34:22There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
Psalms 107:10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, || Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
Isaiah 42:6I, YHWH, called you in righteousness, || And I lay hold on your hand, and keep you, || And I give you for a covenant of a people, || And a light of nations.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to your God YHWH, || Before He causes darkness, || And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, || And you have waited for light, || And He has made it for death-shade, || And has appointed [it] for thick darkness.
Micah 7:8You do not rejoice over me, O my enemy, || When I have fallen, I have risen, || When I sit in darkness YHWH is a light to me.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:13-18
Opening of Christ's Ministry. 12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the… Read the whole commentary →