Matthew 4:16
The people who sat in darkness 1 have seen a great light, 1 and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, 1 upon them has a light arisen.”
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17From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Cross References
Job 3:5May darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. 1 May a cloud live over it; 1 may everything that makes the day black truly terrify it. 1
Job 34:22There is no darkness, no thick gloom 1 where the doers of iniquity may hide themselves. 1
Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in gloom, 1 prisoners in affliction and chains. 1
Isaiah 42:6“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand. 1 I will keep you and set you as a covenant for the people, as a light for the Gentiles, 1
Jeremiah 13:16Give honor to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness, 1 and before he causes your feet to stumble on the mountains at twilight. 1 For you are hoping for light, but he will turn the place into a deep darkness, into a dark cloud. 1
Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. 1 After I fall, 1 I will rise. 1 When I sit in darkness, 1 Yahweh will be a light for me. 1
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 →