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John 9:5

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Jesus Continued;   Light;   Sabbath;   Siloam;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - I Am's of Christ;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Light;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Miracles of Christ, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Siloam;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Covenant;   Light;   Miracle;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blindness;   John, the Gospel of;   Lamps, Lighting, Lampstand;   Lantern;   Sign;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Beggar;   Creator (Christ as);   Cures;   Dedication, Feast of ;   Enlightenment ;   Error;   Example;   Foresight;   Goodness;   Influence;   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Light;   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Love (2);   Mission;   Obscurity;   Pleasure;   Sabbath ;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Sight;   Son of God;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - names of our lord;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Silence;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Names titles and offices of christ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sabbath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Johannine Theology, the;   Light;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 11;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As 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.
King James Version
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."
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."
Amplified Bible
"As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world [giving guidance through My word and works]."
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."
Berean Standard Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Contemporary English Version
While I am in the world, I am the light for 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.
Easy-to-Read Version
While 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.
Good News Translation
While I am in the world, I am the light for 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.
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.
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]
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.
English Revised Version
When 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.
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.
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."
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."
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."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
As longe as I am in the worlde I am the lyght of the worlde.
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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
While I am here, I am the light that lets people see."

Contextual Overview

1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 "Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents' sins?" 3 "It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins," Jesus answered. "This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. 4 We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work. 5 But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world." 6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's eyes. 7 He told him, "Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam means "sent"). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

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
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.
Genesis 9:9
"I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,
Genesis 9:10
and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.
Genesis 9:28
Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood.
Genesis 9:29
He lived 950 years, and then he died.
Exodus 20:13
"You must not murder.
Exodus 21:12
"Anyone who assaults and kills another person must be put to death.
Leviticus 19:16
"Do not spread slanderous gossip among your people. "Do not stand idly by when your neighbor's life is threatened. I am the Lord .
Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges murder cares for the helpless. He does not ignore the cries of those who suffer.
Matthew 23:35
As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time—from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary 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.


 
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