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John 9:5
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As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
"As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world [giving guidance through My word and works]."
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light for the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
As long as I am in the world, I am [the] light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
While I am in the world, I am the light for the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
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So long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.
So long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Having said this,
When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
As longe as Y am in the world, Y am the liyt of the world.
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world."
While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Whensoever I may be, in the world, I am, the light, of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
As longe as I am in the worlde I am the lyght of the worlde.
when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
As longe as I am in the worlde, I am the light of the worlde.
while I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
While I am here, I am the light that lets people see."
Contextual Overview
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
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth with your people.
"I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you.
I make my promise to all the birds, and to all the cattle, and to all the animals that came out of the boat with you. I make my promise to every living thing on earth.
After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
He lived a total of 950 years; then he died.
"You must not murder anyone.
"Whoever hits and kills someone must be killed too.
You must not go around spreading false stories against other people. Don't do anything that would put your neighbor's life in danger. I am the Lord .
He punishes murderers and remembers those who are in need. When suffering people cry for help, he does not ignore them.
"So you will be guilty for the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth. You will be guilty for the killing of that godly man Abel. And you will be guilty for the killing of Zechariah son of Berachiah. He was killed between the Temple and the altar. You will be guilty for the killing of all the good people who lived between the time of Abel and the time of Zechariah.
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.
