Matthew Poole and continuators on John 3:20

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

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 Visible, and discovereth them. As it is of the nature of natural Light, to shew things to others as they are; and therefore Thieves, and Adulterers, and Drunkards, care not for the Light, but chuse the Darkness for their deeds of darkness, and come as little abroad in the Light, as they can, when they do them: So it is of the Nature of Christ and his Gospel, to discover mens errors, both as to the obtaining of Justification and Eternal Salvation, and the Errors also of mens Lives; and therefore men and women possessed of Errors in their Judgments, or delighting in a filthy Conversation, hate Christ and his Gospel; because that a discovering the right ways of God, discovereth the crookedness of their ways, opposite to the truths and ways of God.

Marginal references: Job 24.13, 17.; Or, discovered or convicted.