John 11:10
New International Version
It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

New Living Translation
But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light.”

English Standard Version
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Berean Standard Bible
But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

Berean Literal Bible
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

King James Bible
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

New King James Version
But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

New American Standard Bible
But if anyone walks during the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

NASB 1995
“But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

NASB 1977
“But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Legacy Standard Bible
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Amplified Bible
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.”

Christian Standard Bible
But if anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

American Standard Version
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And if a man walks in the night he stumbles, because there is no light with him.”

Contemporary English Version
But if you walk during the night, you will stumble, because you don't have any light."

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

English Revised Version
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
However, those who walk at night stumble because they have no light in themselves."

Good News Translation
But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light."

International Standard Version
But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Literal Standard Version
and if anyone may walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Majority Standard Bible
But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”

New American Bible
But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

NET Bible
But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

New Revised Standard Version
But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.”

New Heart English Bible
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Webster's Bible Translation
But if a man walketh in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

Weymouth New Testament
But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

World English Bible
But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

Young's Literal Translation
and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Death of Lazarus
9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world. 10But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.” 11After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”…

Cross References
Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Matthew 13:21
But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

John 11:9
Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

John 11:11
After He had said this, He told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up."


Treasury of Scripture

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.

Psalm 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Proverbs 4:18,19
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day…

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.

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John 11
1. Jesus raises Lazarus, four days buried.
45. Many Jews believe.
47. The high priests and Pharisees gather a council against Jesus.
49. Caiaphas prophesies.
54. Jesus hides himself.
55. At the Passover they enquire after him, and lay wait for him.














(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.

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δέ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

if
ἐὰν (ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

anyone
τις (tis)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

walks
περιπατῇ (peripatē)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4043: From peri and pateo; to tread all around, i.e. Walk at large; figuratively, to live, deport oneself, follow.

at
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

night,
νυκτί (nykti)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3571: The night, night-time. A primary word; 'night'.

he will stumble,
προσκόπτει (proskoptei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4350: From pros and kopto; to strike at, i.e. Surge against; specially, to stub on, i.e. Trip up.

because
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

he
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

has
ἔστιν (estin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

no
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

light.”
φῶς (phōs)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5457: Light, a source of light, radiance. From an obsolete phao; luminousness.


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