John 9:5
New International Version
While 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.”

English Standard Version
As long as 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.”

Berean Literal Bible
While I shall be in the world, I am the light of the world."

King James Bible
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 American Standard Bible
While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”

NASB 1995
“While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”

NASB 1977
“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.”

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As long as 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“As long as 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."

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As long as I'm in the world, I'm light for the world."

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

International Standard Version
As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world."

Literal Standard Version
when I am in the world, I AM [the] light of the world.”

Majority Standard Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

New American Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

NET Bible
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

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

New Heart English Bible
While 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.

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

World English Bible
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.'

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Context
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind
4While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.…

Cross References
Matthew 5:14
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

John 1:4
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

John 3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

John 8:12
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

John 12:46
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.


Treasury of Scripture

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

long.

John 1:4-9
In him was life; and the life was the light of men…

John 3:19-21
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil…

John 8:12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

I am.

John 9:15
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

John 1:4
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

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John 9
1. The man born blind is restored to sight.
8. He is brought to the Pharisees.
13. They are offended at it;
35. but he is received of Jesus, and confesses him.
39. Who they are whom Jesus enlightens.














(5) As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.--Better, when I am in the world. The thought is that the two things necessarily co-exist. He is the true Light, and this true Light cannot be in the world without shining in its darkness. (Comp. Note on John 1:5.) The thought is here closely connected with His teaching in the Temple but a short time before (John 8:12, "I am the Light of the world"), and also with the removal of physical and spiritual darkness which immediately followed.

Verse 5. - While - or, whensoever - I am in the world, I am the Light of the world. He had said (John 8:12), "I am the Light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness." He was sublimely conscious of his power to do for the moral world what the sun was doing for the physical world. He was the Occasion of its life, the Condition of its activity, the means of its instruction, the Source of all its beauty, its joy, and its progress. The ὅταν, which is translated quamdiu in the Vulgate, and "so long as" in the Authorized Version, means strictly "whensoever," and refers to the entire period of his activity (see John 1:5). But while the sun of this world cannot open the eyes of the blind, and wastes his radiance on their sightless sockets, so, unless Christ were more than the sun, and could give the power as well as the opportunity of seeing, he would never have done the work of him that sent him. The fact that he is the Light leads him to remind the disciples that he is the true Source of eyesight as well as of the conditions of vision. Light enough for all the world shines into the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not. This Jewish people are surrounded by floods of light. The spiritual world stands revealed fully to Christ's own gaze. But mankind hates the light, loves darkness on these matters rather than the light. There is a radical fundamental change that must come over men, or they will never see. This evil, this terrible calamity that has befallen man, will vitiate all the provision of mercy. There must be a new beginning, a new birth, a work of God wrought in men, as well as a sublime revelation made to men, or the whole mission of the Christ would be incomplete.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
While
ὅταν (hotan)
Conjunction
Strong's 3752: When, whenever. From hote and an; whenever; also causatively inasmuch as.

I am
(ō)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῷ (tō)
Article - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world,
κόσμῳ (kosmō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

I am
εἰμι (eimi)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

[the] light
φῶς (phōs)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5457: Light, a source of light, radiance. From an obsolete phao; luminousness.

of the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

world.”
κόσμου (kosmou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2889: Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).


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