John 9:5

Contemporary English Version

While I am in the world, I am the light for the world."

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As longe as I am in the worlde I am the lyght of the worlde.

Hebrew Names Version
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

International Standard Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."John 1:5,9; 3:19; 8:12;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

New Century Version
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Update Bible Version
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Webster's Bible Translation
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

English Standard Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

World English Bible
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Having said this,

Weymouth's New Testament
When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As longe as Y am in the world, Y am the liyt of the world.

English Revised Version
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Berean Standard Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Amplified Bible
"As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world [giving guidance through My word and works]."

American Standard Version
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Darby Translation
As long as I am in the world, I am [the] light of the world.

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

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

King James Version (1611)
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

New Living Translation
But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world."

New Life Bible
While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

New Revised Standard
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Geneva Bible (1587)
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whensoever I may be, in the world, I am, the light, of the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Revised Standard Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.

Good News Translation
While I am in the world, I am the light for the world."

Christian Standard Bible®
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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

Lexham English Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Literal Translation
While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.

Young's Literal Translation
when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As longe as I am in the worlde, I am the light of the worlde.

Mace New Testament (1729)
while I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

New English Translation
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

New King James Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Simplified Cowboy Version
While I am here, I am the light that lets people see."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

Legacy Standard Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Contextual Overview

¹ As Jesus walked along, he saw a man who had been blind since birth. ² Jesus' disciples asked, "Teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he or his parents sinned?" ³ "No, it wasn't!" Jesus answered. "But because of his blindness, you will see God work a miracle for him. ⁴ As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light for the world." ⁶ After Jesus said this, he spit on the ground. He made some mud and smeared it on the man's eyes. ⁷ Then he said, "Go and wash off the mud in Siloam Pool." The man went and washed in Siloam, which means "One Who Is Sent." When he had washed off the mud, he could see.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

long: John 1:4-9, John 3:19-21, John 8:12, John 12:35, John 12:36, John 12:46, Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 42:7, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 60:1-3, Malachi 4:2, Matthew 4:16, Luke 2:32, Acts 13:47, Acts 26:18, Acts 26:23, Ephesians 5:14, Revelation 21:23

I am: Our Lord here claims one of the titles given by the Jews to the Divine Being. So in Bammidbar Rabba, 15, fol. 229.1, "The Israelites said to God, O Lord of the universe, thou commandest us to light lamps to thee, yet thou art the light of the world." It was also a title of the Messiah - see Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 60:1, and in a remarkable passage of Yalkut Rubeni, fol. 6, it is said on Genesis 1:4, "From this we learn that the holy and blessed God saw the light of the Messiah, and his works, before the world was created; and reserved it for the Messiah, and his generation, under the throne of his glory. Satan said to the holy and blessed God, For whom dost thou reserve that light which is under the throne of thy glory? God answered, For him who shall subdue thee, and overwhelm thee with confusion. Satan rejoined, Lord of the universe, shew that person to me. God said, Come, and see him. When he saw him, he was greatly agitated, and fell upon his face, saying, Truly this is the Messiah, who shall cast me and idolaters into hell.

Reciprocal: Mark 2:28 - General Mark 10:52 - he received Luke 1:79 - give Luke 18:43 - he 1 John 1:5 - that God

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God said to Noah and his sons: I am giving you my blessing. Have a lot of children and grandchildren, so people will live everywhere on this earth.

Genesis 9:9
I am going to make a solemn promise to you and to everyone who will live after you.

Genesis 9:10
This includes the birds and the animals that came out of the boat.

Genesis 9:28
Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood

Genesis 9:29
and died at the age of nine hundred fifty.

Exodus 20:13
Do not murder.

Exodus 21:12
The Lord said: Death is the punishment for murder.

Leviticus 19:16
Don't be a gossip, but never hesitate to speak up in court, especially if your testimony can save someone's life.

Psalms 9:12
You did not forget to punish the guilty or listen to the cries of those in need.

Matthew 23:35
That's why you will be held guilty for the murder of every good person, beginning with the good man Abel. This also includes Barachiah's son Zechariah, the man you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As long as I am in the world,.... Which had been now two or three and thirty years; but was not to be much longer.

I am the light of the world; :-. Though doubtless he said this with some view to the cure he was about to perform, it being agreeable to his character and work, while he was in the world.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As long as I am in the world ... - As the sun is the natural light of the world, even while it sinks away to the west, so am I, although my days are drawing to a close, the light of the spiritual world. What a sublime description is this! Jesus occupied the same place, filled the same space, shed his beams as far, in the moral world, as the sun does on natural objects; and as all is dark when that sun sinks to the west, so when he withdraws from the souls of men all is midnight and gloom. When we look on the sun in the firmament or in the west, let us remember that such is the great Sun of Righteousness in regard to our souls; that his shining is as necessary, and his beams as mild and lovely on the soul, as is the shining of the natural sun to illumine the material creation. See the notes at John 1:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 9:5. I am the light of the world. — Like the sun, it is my business to dispense light and heat every where; and to neglect no opportunity that may offer to enlighten and save the bodies and souls of men. See John 8:12.