John 11:9

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Jesus answered, 'Aren't there twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day, he won't stumble, because he sees by this world's light.'

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  • John 9:4 : 4 'As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.'
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, "The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and with pleas for mercy, I will lead them. I will guide them to streams of water on a straight path where they will not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Luke 13:31-33 : 31 At that time, some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, 'Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.' 32 He replied, 'Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ 33 Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem.
  • Prov 3:23 : 23 Then you will walk safely on your path, and your foot will not stumble.

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  • 89%

    10'But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.'

    11After he said this, he told them, 'Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him up.'

  • 81%

    35Then Jesus said to them, "The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

    36While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." Jesus said this, then went away and was hidden from them.

  • 12Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

  • 8The disciples said to him, 'Rabbi, just now the Jews were trying to stone you, and you're going back there again?'

  • John 9:1-5
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    76%

    1As Jesus was passing by, He saw a man who had been blind from birth.

    2His disciples asked Him, 'Teacher, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'

    3Jesus answered, 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him.'

    4'As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.'

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

  • 46I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

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    35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

    36So if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it is dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.

  • John 1:8-9
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    8He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

    9The true Light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.

  • 39He said to them, 'Come, and you will see.' So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

  • 30The man answered, 'This is remarkable! You do not know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!'

  • 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

  • John 9:39-41
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    39Jesus said, 'For judgment I came into this world, so that those who are blind may see and those who see may become blind.'

    40Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this and asked, 'Are we also blind?'

    41Jesus replied, 'If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you claim, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

  • 33No one lights a lamp and puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

  • John 3:10-11
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    10Jesus replied, 'You are a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.

  • 12So they asked him, 'Who is the man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?'

  • 6If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

  • 21But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly seen that their deeds have been done in God.

  • 35John was a lamp that burned and shone, and for a time, you were willing to rejoice in his light.

  • 19This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

  • 10Whoever loves their brother or sister abides in the light, and in them there is no cause for stumbling.

  • John 9:14-15
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    14Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

    15So the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He replied, 'He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.'

  • 12They asked him, 'Where is He?' He answered, 'I don’t know.'

  • John 9:25-26
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    25He answered, 'Whether He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!'

    26Then they asked him, 'What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?'

  • 21'But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.'

  • 23Jesus replied to them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

  • 12The night is far gone, and the day is near. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

  • 50Nicodemus, the one who had previously come to Him at night and who was one of them, said to them,

  • 16No one lights a lamp and covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they set it on a lampstand so that those who come in may see the light.

  • 20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple treasury. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

  • 10They asked him, 'Then how were your eyes opened?

  • 12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • 14They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • 25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

  • 21He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it to be put on a lampstand?

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    18They said, 'What does he mean by “a little while”? We do not know what he is talking about.'

    19Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, 'Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, “A little while and you will no longer see me; and again a little while and you will see me”?'

  • 23That was why his parents said, 'He is of age; ask him.'