John 11:10

It is when people walk in the nighttime that they stumble over things, because they have no light.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

In Context

9To show us that nothing bad could happen to him until the time that God had chosen [MET], Jesus replied, “There are [RHQ] twelve hours in the daytime, which is enough time to do what God wants us to do. People who walk in the daytime will not stumble over things they cannot see, because they see things by the light from the sun.

11After he said that, he told us, “Our friend Lazarus has gone to sleep. But I will go there so that I can wake him up.”

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Cross References

Psalms 27:2When those who do evil come near me to attack me, they stumble and fall down.

Ecclesiastes 2:14because wise people walk in the daylight and [IDM] can see where they are going, but foolish people walk in the darkness and cannot see where they are going.” But I also realized that both wise people and foolish people eventually die.

Jeremiah 20:11But you, Yahweh, are helping me like [SIM] a strong warrior, so it is as though you will cause those who persecute me to stumble, and they will not defeat me. They will be completely disgraced because of being unable to defeat me; and other people will never forget that they were disgraced.

Matthew Henry on John 11:2-17

The Death of Lazarus. 1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister,… Read the whole commentary →

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