John 9:5

Complete Jewish Bible

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

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."

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 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."

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 Yeshua passed along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His talmidim asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned — this man or his parents — to cause him to be born blind?" ³ Yeshua answered, "His blindness is due neither to his sin nor to that of his parents; it happened so that God's power might be seen at work in him. ⁴ As long as it is day, we must keep doing the work of the One who sent me; the night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." ⁶ Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put the mud on the man's eyes, ⁷ and said to him, "Go, wash off in the Pool of Shiloach!" (The name means "sent.") So he went and washed and came away 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
God blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:9
"As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you,

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you — the birds, the livestock and every wild animal with you, all going out of the ark, every animal on earth.

Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noach lived 350 years.

Genesis 9:29
In all, Noach lived 950 years; then he died.

Exodus 20:13
ו "Do not murder. ז "Do not commit adultery. ח "Do not steal. ט "Do not give false evidence against your neighbor.

Exodus 21:12
"Whoever attacks a person and causes his death must be put to death.

Leviticus 19:16
"‘Do not go around spreading slander among your people, but also don't stand idly by when your neighbor's life is at stake; I am Adonai .

Psalms 9:12
Sing praises to Adonai , who lives in Tziyon; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.

Matthew 23:35
And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom 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.