Yuēhànfúyīn 11:9

9 Yēsū huídá shuō , bái rì bù shì yǒu shí èr xiǎoshí má . rén zaì bái rì zǒu lù , jiù bù zhì diēdǎo , yīnwei kànjian zhè shìshang de guāng .

Yuēhànfúyīn 11:9 Meaning and Commentary

John 11:9

Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day?
&c.] So the Jews reckoned, and so they commonly say ^F1, (Mwyh ywh twev) (hrve Mytv) , "twelve hours are a day", or a day consists of twelve hours, which they divided into four parts, each part consisting of three hours this was a matter well known, and Christ puts the question as such, it being what might be easily answered, and at once assented to:

if any man walk in the day:
within any of the twelve hours, even in the last of them,

he stumbleth not,
at any stone or stumbling block in the way,

because he seeth the light of this world;
the sun in the horizon not being as yet set, by the light of which he sees what is before him, and avoids it; (See Gill on John 8:12). So our Lord intimates, that as yet it was day with him, his time of life was not expired; and so, as yet, it was a time of walking and working; nor did he fear any danger he was exposed to, or any snares that were laid for him, since he could not be hurt by any, nor his life taken from him before his time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 T. Bab Sanhedrin, fol. 88. 2. Avoda Zara, fol. 3. 2. Vid. Philo. de Somniis, p. 1143.

Yuēhànfúyīn 11:9 In-Context

7 Ránhòu duì méntǔ shuō , wǒmen zaì wǎng Yóutaì qù ba .

8 Méntǔ shuō , Lābǐ , Yóutaìrén jìn lái yào ná shítou dǎ nǐ , nǐ hái wǎng nàli qù má .

9 Yēsū huídá shuō , bái rì bù shì yǒu shí èr xiǎoshí má . rén zaì bái rì zǒu lù , jiù bù zhì diēdǎo , yīnwei kànjian zhè shìshang de guāng .

10 Ruò zaì hēi yè zǒu lù , jiù bì diēdǎo , yīnwei tā méiyǒu guāng .

11 Yēsū shuō le zhè huà , suíhòu duì tāmen shuō , wǒmen de péngyou Lāsalù shuì le , wǒ qù jiàoxǐng tā .