John 9:5
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Text-Critical English 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 do the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
Cross References
Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for the glory of yoʋr people Israel.”
John 3:19This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 12:35Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Acts 13:47For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed yoʋ to be a light to the Gentiles, so that yoʋ may bring 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 →