John 11:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

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  • John 9:4 : 4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Luke 13:31-33 : 31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you." 32 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission. 33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.'
  • Prov 3:23 : 23 Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won't stumble.

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    10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

    11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

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    35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

    36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

  • 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

  • 8 The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

  • John 9:1-5
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    1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

    2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

    3 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

    4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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

  • 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

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    35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

    36 If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."

  • John 1:8-9
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    8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

    9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

  • 39 He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.{4:00 PM.}

  • 30 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

  • 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome{The word translated "overcome" (katelaben) can also be translated "comprehended." It refers to getting a grip on an enemy to defeat him.} it.

  • John 9:39-41
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    39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

    40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

    41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

  • 33 "No man, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar, nor under a basket, but on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

  • John 3:10-11
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    10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

    11 Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

  • 12 Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

  • 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

  • 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

  • 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

  • 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

  • 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

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

    15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

  • 12 Then they asked him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."

  • John 9:25-26
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    25 He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."

    26 They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

  • 21 but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."

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

  • 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

  • 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

  • 16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

  • 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

  • 10 They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"

  • 12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • 25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • 21 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket{Literally, a modion, a dry measuring basket containing about a peck (about 9 litres)} or under a bed? Isn't it put on a lampstand?

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    18 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

    19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

  • 23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."