Matthew 4:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

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  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you. 2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you. 3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
  • Ps 107:10-14 : 10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron; 11 Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High: 12 So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper. 13 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles. 14 He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations: 7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us, 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

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  • Isa 9:1-2
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    1 In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

    2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

  • Luke 1:77-80
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    77 To give knowledge of salvation to his people, through the forgiveness of sins,

    78 Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

    79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

    80 And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

  • Matt 4:12-15
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    12 Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;

    13 And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:

    14 So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,

    15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

  • Luke 2:31-32
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    31 Which you have made ready before the face of all nations;

    32 A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.

  • Isa 60:1-3
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    1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

    2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

    3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.

  • Matt 4:17
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    17 From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

  • John 1:4-5
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    4 What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

    5 And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

  • John 12:46
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    46 I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

  • John 12:35-36
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    35 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

    36 In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

  • Matt 11:5
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    5 The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

  • John 3:19
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    19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

  • John 1:9
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    9 The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

  • John 8:12
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    12 Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

  • Luke 11:35-36
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    35 So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

    36 If, then, all your body is light, with no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a flame with its bright shining gives you light.

  • Luke 4:17-18
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    17 And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

    18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  • Matt 5:16
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    16 Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

  • Job 10:22
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    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Luke 11:33
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    33 No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

  • Ps 107:10
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    10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

  • Matt 5:14
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    14 You are the light of the world. A town put on a hill may be seen by all.

  • Mark 1:14
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    14 Now after John had been put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the good news of God,

  • Jer 13:16
    70%

    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Eph 5:14
    70%

    14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Mark 1:9
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    9 And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.

  • Matt 4:25
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    25 And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.

  • Luke 3:4
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    4 As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

  • Isa 42:7
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    7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

  • Ps 112:4
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    4 For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

  • Luke 17:24
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    24 For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.

  • Mark 4:21
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    21 And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?

  • Ps 107:14
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    14 He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

  • Acts 13:24
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    24 For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

  • Col 1:13
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    13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;