John 3:20

20 For every man that evyll doeth hateth the light: nether commeth to light lest his dedes shuld be reproved.

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 He that beleveth on him shall not be condepned. But he that beleveth not is condempned all redy be cause he beleveth not in the name of the only sonne of God.

19 And this is the condempnacion: that light is come into the worlde and the me loved darcknes more then light because their dedes were evill.

20 For every man that evyll doeth hateth the light: nether commeth to light lest his dedes shuld be reproved.

21 But he that doth truth commeth to the light that his dedes might be knowen how that they are wrought in God.

22 After these thinges cam Iesus and his disciples into the Iewes londe and ther he haunted with them and baptised.