Matthew 4:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.

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  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to be reueiled to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, O Ierusalem: be bright, for thy light is come, and the glorie of the Lorde is risen vpon thee. 2 For beholde, darkenesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darkenesse the people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall walke in thy light, and Kings at the brightnesse of thy rising vp.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.
  • Ps 107:10-14 : 10 They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron, 11 Because they rebelled against the wordes of the Lorde, and despised the counsell of the most High, 12 When he humbled their heart with heauines, then they fell downe and there was no helper. 13 Then they cried vnto the Lorde in their trouble, & he deliuered them from their distresse. 14 He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 I the Lorde haue called thee in righteousnesse, and will hold thine hand, and I will keepe thee, and giue thee for a couenant of the people, and for a light of the Gentiles, 7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Reioyce not against me, O mine enemie: though I fall, I shall arise: when I shall sit in darkenesse, the Lord shalbe a light vnto me.
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spring from an hie hath visited vs, 79 To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.

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  • Isa 9:1-2
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    1 Yet the darkenes shal not be according to the affliction that it had when at the first hee touched lightly the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, nor afteward when he was more grieuous by the way of the sea beyond Iorden in Galile of the Gentiles.

    2 The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.

  • Luke 1:77-80
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    77 And to giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people, by the remission of their sinnes,

    78 Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spring from an hie hath visited vs,

    79 To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.

    80 And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the wildernesse, til the day came that he should shewe him selfe vnto Israel.

  • Matt 4:12-15
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    12 And when Iesus had heard that Iohn was committed to prison, he returned into Galile.

    13 And leauing Nazareth, went and dwelt in Capernaum, which is nere the sea in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim,

    14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Propet, saying,

    15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim by the way of the sea, beyond Iordan, Galile of the Gentiles:

  • Luke 2:31-32
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    31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people,

    32 A light to be reueiled to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

  • Isa 60:1-3
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    1 Arise, O Ierusalem: be bright, for thy light is come, and the glorie of the Lorde is risen vpon thee.

    2 For beholde, darkenesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darkenesse the people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon thee.

    3 And the Gentiles shall walke in thy light, and Kings at the brightnesse of thy rising vp.

  • Matt 4:17
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    17 From that time Iesus began to preach, and to say, Amende your liues: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.

  • John 1:4-5
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    4 In it was life, and that life was the light of men.

    5 And that light shineth in the darkenesse, and the darkenesse comprehended it not.

  • John 12:46
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    46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoeuer beleeueth in me, should not abide in darkenes.

  • John 12:35-36
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    35 Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Yet a litle while is the light with you: walke while ye haue that light, lest the darkenes come vpon you: for hee that walketh in the darke, knoweth not whither he goeth.

    36 While ye haue that light, beleeue in that light, that ye may be the children of the light. These things spake Iesus, and departed, and hid himselfe from them.

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    5 The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.

  • John 3:19
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    19 And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then that light, because their deedes were euill.

  • John 1:9
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    9 This was that true light, which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world.

  • John 8:12
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    12 Then spake Iesus againe vnto them, saying, I am that light of the worlde: hee that followeth mee, shall not walke in darkenes, but shall haue that light of life.

  • Luke 11:35-36
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    35 Take heede therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkenesse.

    36 If therefore thy whole body shall be light, hauing no part darke, then shall all be light, euen as when a candle doth light thee with the brightnesse.

  • Luke 4:17-18
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    17 And there was deliuered vnto him the booke of the Prophet Esaias: and when hee had opened the booke, hee founde the place, where it was written,

    18 The Spirit of the Lorde is vpon mee, because he hath anoynted me, that I should preach the Gospel to the poore: he hath sent mee, that I should heale the broken hearted, that I should preach deliuerance to the captiues, and recouering of sight to the blinde, that I should set at libertie them that are bruised:

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    6 For God that commanded the light to shine out of darknesse, is he which hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ.

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    16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.

  • Job 10:22
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    22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

  • Luke 11:33
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    33 No man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a priuie place, neither vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, that they which come in, may see the light.

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    10 They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron,

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    14 Ye are the light of the world. A citie that is set on an hill, cannot be hid.

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    14 Now after that Iohn was committed to prison, Iesus came into Galile, preaching the Gospel of the kingdome of God,

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.

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    14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 And when he shall looke to the earth, beholde trouble, and darkenes, vexation and anguish, and he is driuen to darkenes.

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    9 And it came to passe in those dayes, that Iesus came from Nazareth, a citie of Galile, and was baptized of Iohn in Iordan.

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    25 And there folowed him great multitudes out of Galile, and Decapolis, and Hierusalem, and Iudea, and from beyond Iordan.

  • Luke 3:4
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    4 As it is written in the booke of the sayings of Esaias the Prophet, which saith, The voyce of him that crieth in the wildernes is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

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    7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.

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    4 Vnto the righteous ariseth light in darkenes: he is merciful & full of copassion & righteous.

  • Luke 17:24
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    24 For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen, so shall the Sonne of man be in his day.

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    21 Also he saide vnto them, Commeth the candle in, to be put vnder a bushell, or vnder the bed, and not to be put on a candlesticke?

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    14 He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.

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    24 When Iohn had first preached before his coming the baptisme of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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    18 And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.

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