John 9:5

So long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

In Context

4Me it behoveth to do the works of Him who sent me, while it is to-day: the night cometh when man cannot work.

6And when he had said these things, he spat upon the ground, and formed clay from his spittle, and rubbed upon the eyes of the blind,

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Cross References

Luke 2:32A light for the revelation of the peoples, And the glory of thy people Isroel.

John 3:19And this is the judgment, that the light hath come into the world, and the sons of men have loved darkness rather than the light, for their deeds have been evil.

John 12:35Jeshu saith to them, A little further time is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not. And whoever walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Acts 13:47For so hath our Lord commanded, as it is written, I have set thee a light to the Gentiles, To be for 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 →

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