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John 9:5

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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 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

1Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked, "Rabbi, who sinned: this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?" 3Jesus said, "You're asking the wrong question. You're looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do. We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over. For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world's Light." 6He said this and then spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man's eyes, and said, "Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam" (Siloam means "Sent"). The man went and washed—and saw.

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 Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.
Genesis 9:28
Noah lived another 350 years following the flood. He lived a total of 950 years. And he died.
Exodus 20:13
No murder.
Exodus 21:12
"If someone hits another and death results, the penalty is death. But if there was no intent to kill—if it was an accident, an ‘act of God'—I'll set aside a place to which the killer can flee for refuge. But if the murder was premeditated, cunningly plotted, then drag the killer away, even if it's from my Altar, to be put to death.
Leviticus 19:16
"Don't spread gossip and rumors. "Don't just stand by when your neighbor's life is in danger. I am God .
Matthew 23:35
"You can't squirm out of this: Every drop of righteous blood ever spilled on this earth, beginning with the blood of that good man Abel right down to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered at his prayers, is on your head. All this, I'm telling you, is coming down on you, on your generation.

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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