John 11:10
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
John 11:10 in other translations
| BSB | But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.” |
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| WEB | But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.” |
| ASV | But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him. |
| YLT | and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.' |
| DARBY | but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. |
| BBE | But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him. |
| Webster | But if a man walketh in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. |
What does John 11:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 11:7-10
7-10. Let us go into Judea again--He was now in Perea, "beyond Jordan."
Barnes' Notes
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 11:7-10
Christ never brings his people into any danger but he goes with them in it. We are apt to think ourselves zealous for the Lord, when really we are only zealous for our wealth, credit, ease, and safety; we have therefore need to try our principles. But our day shall be lengthened out, till our work is done, and our testimony finished. A man has comfort and satisfaction while in the way of his duty, as set forth by…
John 11:10 in the original Greek
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Cross references for John 11:10
- Proverbs 4:18-19
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- 1 John 2:10-11
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
- Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
- Jeremiah 20:11
But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
- Psalms 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
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Context
- John 11:9
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
- John 11:10
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
- John 11:11
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 11:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas el que anduviere de noche, tropieza, porque no hay luz en él. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais si quelqu’un marche de nuit, il bronche, car la lumière n’est pas en lui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | wenn aber jemand in der Nacht wandelt, stößt er an, weil das Licht nicht in ihm ist. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | si autem ambulaverit in nocte, offendit, quia lux non est in eo. |