Matthew 4:16
The people that was sitting in darkness, a great light, beheld,—and, on them who were sitting in land and shade of death, Light rose on them.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15Land of Zebulun, and land of Naphtali, the lake-way across the Jordan,—Galilee of the nations,
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:
Job 34:22No darkness, and no death-shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.
Psalms 107:10The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;
Isaiah 42:6I—Yahweh, have called thee in righteousness, And will firmly grasp thy hand,—And will keep thee And give thee—As the covenant of a people, As the light of nations:
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Yahweh your God—glory, Before he cause darkness, and Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for thick darkness.
Micah 7:8Do not rejoice, O mine enemy, against me, Though I fall, I shall rise again! Though I sit in darkness, Yahweh, 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 →