John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
In Context
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.
Matthew 20:7They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.
Luke 13:32And he said to them: Go and tell that fox: Behold, I cast out devils and do cures, to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am consummated.
John 5:19Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.
John 10:32Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?
John 11:9Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:
Matthew Henry on John 9:2-8
Sight Given to One Born Blind. 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus… Read the whole commentary →