John Chapter 11 verse 10 Holy Bible
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.
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But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
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but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
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But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
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But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
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and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. He shuts himself off from the light of God-given opportunity, and carries no lamp in his soul. There is no necessity to suppose, in John 9:4, that the day was drawing to a close, or that in this place a natural day was dawning; but there is some probability from this phraseology that John adopted the Babylonian rather than the Roman method of computing the hours of the day. This has decided bearing on several important questions (notes, John 1:39; John 4:6, 52; John 19:14). The "twelve hours" shows, at all events, that the Jews at this time generally reckoned from sunrise to sunset. It must be remembered that the day differed considerably in length at different parts of the year, from fourteen hours to nine; but perhaps the emphatic use of the expression derives special interest from the fact that the equinox was approaching.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) But if a man walk in the night . . .--He passes in this verse from the material to the spiritual truth. This first clause still holds of the natural night, and the danger to men who walk in it, but it holds, too, of the darkness in which men walk who do not see, as He is seeing, the light of heaven falling upon the moral path. In the second clause the moral truth is expressed with a prominence which excludes the other.Because there is no light in him.--The light is now not that "of this world," but that which is within man.