Matthew 4:16
The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen.
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In Context
17From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Psalms 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shades of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Isaiah 42:6I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades of death, and make it gross darkness.
Micah 7:8Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be 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 →