John 9:5
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
In Context
4We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
Cross References
Malachi 4:2But to you who revere my name there will arise the sun of righteousness with healing in its wings, and you will run free like calves let out from their stall.
Luke 2:32a light to bring light to the Gentiles, and to be the glory of your people Israel.”
John 3:19The ground of their condemnation is this, that though the light has come into the world, people preferred the darkness to the light, because their actions were wicked.
John 12:35“Only a little while longer,” answered Jesus, “will you have the light among you. Travel on while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Acts 13:47For this is the Lord’s command to us – ‘I have destined you for a light to the Gentiles, a means of salvation to the ends 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 →