Jesus answered, [a]Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God should be showed on him.

[b]I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is [c]day: the night cometh when no man can work.

As long as I am in the world, (A)I am the light of the world.

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Footnotes

  1. John 9:3 Christ reasoneth here, as his disciples thought, which presuppose that there come no diseases but for sins only: whereupon he answereth that there was another cause of this man’s blindness, and that was, that God’s his work might be seen.
  2. John 9:4 The works of Christ are as it were a light, which lighten the darkness of the world.
  3. John 9:4 By (day) is meant the light, that is, the lightsome, doctrine of the heavenly truth: and by (night) is meant the darkness which cometh by the obscurity of the same doctrine.

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