John 9:5
when I am in the world, I AM [the] light of the world.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 49:6And He says, “It has been a light thing || That You are My Servant || To raise up the tribes of Jacob, || And to bring back the preserved of Israel, || And I have given You for a light to the nations, || To be My salvation to the end of the earth.”
Malachi 4:2But for you fearing My Name, || The Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings, || And you have gone forth, || And have bounded as calves of a stall.
Luke 2:32a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Your people Israel.”
John 3:19And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
John 12:35Therefore Jesus said to them, “Yet a short time is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness has not known where he goes;
Acts 13:47for so the LORD has commanded us: I have set you for a light of nations—for your being 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 →