John 9:5

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, in which no one can work.

6And having spoken thus, he spit on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and spread it on the eyes of the blind man;

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Cross References

Luke 2:32a light for a revelation to the Gentiles, and a glory for thy people Israel.

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

John 12:35Jesus said to them: A short time longer, the light is with you. Walk, while ye have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.

Acts 13:47For so hath our Lord commanded us; as it is written: I have set thee a light to the Gentiles; that thou shouldst be for life unto 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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