John 3:20

20 For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

John 3:20 Meaning and Commentary

John 3:20

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 of them, and rebuke him for them:

neither cometh to the light;
to hear Christ preach, or preached; to attend on the Gospel ministration and means of grace:

lest his deeds should be reproved;
or discovered, and made manifest, and he be brought to shame, and laid under blame, and advised to part with them, which he cares not to do; see ( Ephesians 5:11-13 ) .

John 3:20 In-Context

18 The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

19 And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

22 After these [things] Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.