John 9:5
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
In Context
4I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.
Cross References
Luke 2:32A light for a revelation to the Gentiles, 1 And a glory to Your people Israel.”
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.
John 12:35Then Jesus said to them, “ For yet a little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
Acts 13:47For so the Lord has commanded us: 1 ‘ I have set you to be a light of the nations, 1 that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth.’ ”
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 →