John 3:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.c ”

• John 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  That doeth evil - Every wicked person. Hateth the light - This is true of all wicked men. They choose to practice their deeds of wickedness in darkness. They are afraid of the light, because...

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• John 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Conversation with Nicodemus. Nicodemus is an example of those to whom the Lord could not trust Himself. The story shows how He tried to bring those whom His teaching had impressed to a truer co...

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• John 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  doeth . practises, or (habitually) does. Greek. prasso evil. Greek. phaulos. worthless, base. Occurs only here; John 5:29 ; Titus 2:8 ; James 3:16 , in Rec. Text, but in Romans 9:11 ; 2 Co...

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• John 3:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. For whosoever doeth what is evil. The meaning is, that the light is hateful to them for no other reason than because they are wicked and desire to conceal their sins, as far as lies i...

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• John 3:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1612 MEN’S HATRED OF THE LIGHT John 3:19-21 . And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil....

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• John 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light - He who doth vile or abominable things:...

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• John 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, les...

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• John 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Birth. John's Testimony to Jesus 1-15. Conversation with Nicodemus. The ministry at Jerusalem, though disappointing, was not fruitless. Christ's miracles and teaching had made an impressio...

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• John 3:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light. — In this and the next verse we have the explanation of the choice of the darkness and rejection of the light. The fact itself is first stated more s...

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• John 3:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 8 THE BRAZEN SERPENT. “Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?...

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• John 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Love's Great Gift: Received or Rejected John 3:9-21 Though physically on earth, our Lord was spiritually in touch with the heavenly realities. He was living among them and bore witness to them....

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• John 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Nicodemus would seem to have been one of the finest products of Judaism. He was thoroughly sincere. Moreover, he was determined to investigate for himself, and so came to Jesus by night, not because...

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• John 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (10) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee,...

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• John 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For every one that doth evil, hateth the light ,.... Every man, the series of whose life and conversation is evil, hates Christ and his Gospel, cause they make manifest his evil deeds, convict him o...

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• John 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Ver. 20. For every one that doeth evil ] As the Ethiopians are said to curse the su...

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• John 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For every one that doeth evil That is conscious to himself that he lives in known sin, and is inclined to continue to do so; hateth the light Which would detect and expose his evil practices, and...

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• John 3:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  NICODEMUS, AND NEW BIRTH (vs.1-21) Among the many who believed because of the miracles, there was however one individual who was more seriously affected. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night, evi...

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• John 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Interview with Nicodemus.       1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:   2 The same came to Jesus...

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• John 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He that makes a trade of sin, and doth evil presumptuously, loving and delighting in it, doth not love the light, nor, if he can avoid it, will come near it; for the light is that which makes things...

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• John 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved'. While we are behaving like ‘nice Christians' and doing good, men will praise us and s...

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• John 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 3:16-21 . These verses are confidently held by many to contain the reflections of the Evangelist, and not to be a continuation of our Lord’s discourse. But (...

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• John 3:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 3:20 Notice: I. That the Jews, to whom our text was originally applied, hated the light, and would not come to it because their deeds were evil. Their national rejection of our Lord was the...

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• John 3:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  We can scarcely find a chapter in which the gospel lies so compact and so plainly stated. John 3:1 . There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: Christ's door is open...

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• John 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 3:1 . Nicodemus, a ruler of the jews. This rabbi is named by John as defending our Saviour in the council, and as attending the crucifixion. A gospel of the passion and the resurrection of Ch...

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• John 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light … but he that doeth truth cometh to the light The repelling and attractive influence of light These words may have taken their form from the fact...

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• John 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This is the first of the eleven discourses recorded by this evangelist, and for the most part addressed to the cultivated, hierarcical party in Jerusalem, who questioned him in an u...

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• John 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The contrast between light and darkness:

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• John 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 22:8 ; Amos 5:10 ; Amos 5:11 ; Ephesians 5:12 ; Ephesians 5:13 ; James 1:23-25 ; Job 24:13-17 ; John 7:7 ; Luke 11:45 ; Proverbs 1:29 ; Proverbs 15:12 ; Proverbs 4:18 ; Proverbs...

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