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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 9:5 Catholic Bible: While I am in the world, I am the light for the world." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/john/9-5.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/john/9-5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/john/9-5.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/1.htm">John</a> > <a href="/gntd/john/9.htm">Chapter 9</a> > Verse 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/9-4.htm" title="John 9:4">◄</a> John 9:5 <a href="../john/9-6.htm" title="John 9:6">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/john/9.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/john/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />While I am in the world, I am the light for the world." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/john/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/john/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />While I am in the world, I am the light for the world." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/john/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/john/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.</p><p class="hdg">long.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/1-4.htm">John 1:4-9</a> In him was life: and the life was the light of men. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/3-19.htm">John 3:19-21</a> And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/8-12.htm">John 8:12</a> Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/12-35.htm">John 12:35,36,46</a> Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/42-6.htm">Isaiah 42:6,7</a> I the Lord have called thee in justice, and taken thee by the hand, and preserved thee. And I have given thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/49-6.htm">Isaiah 49:6</a> And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/60-1.htm">Isaiah 60:1-3</a> Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/4-2.htm">Malachi 4:2</a> But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/4-16.htm">Matthew 4:16</a> The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/2-32.htm">Luke 2:32</a> A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/13-47.htm">Acts 13:47</a> For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/26-18.htm">Acts 26:18,23</a> To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-14.htm">Ephesians 5:14</a> Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/21-23.htm">Revelation 21:23</a> And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.</p><p class="hdg">I am.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/9-15.htm">John 9:15</a> Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and I see.</p><p class="hdg2">, fol.</p><p class="hdg2">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 Isa.</p><p class="hdg2">49:6;</p><p class="hdg2">60:1;) and in a remarkable passage of Yalkut Rubeni, fol.</p><p class="hdg2">6, it is said on Ge.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/1-4.htm">John 1:4</a> In him was life: and the life was the light of men.</p><p class="hdg2">, '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.'</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/john/9.htm">Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">4</span>I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl">As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.</span> <span class="reftext">6</span>When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/5-14.htm">Matthew 5:14</a></span><br />You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/1-4.htm">John 1:4</a></span><br />In him was life: and the life was the light of men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/3-19.htm">John 3:19</a></span><br />And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/8-12.htm">John 8:12</a></span><br />Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/12-46.htm">John 12:46</a></span><br />I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/john/8-12.htm">Light</a> <a href="/john/8-26.htm">World</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/john/11-9.htm">Light</a> <a href="/john/9-32.htm">World</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/john/9-5.htm">John 9:5 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: am I in light of the While world<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/john/9-5.htm">NT Gospels: John 9:5 While I am in the world (Jhn Jo Jn) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/9-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 9:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 9:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/9-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 9:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 9:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>