John 9:5

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

John 9:5 Meaning and Commentary

John 9:5

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; (See Gill on John 8:12). 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.

John 9:5 In-Context

3 Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

4 It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

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

6 [When he] had said these [things], he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.

7 And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So he went and washed and came back seeing.