46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
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Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. …
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-50)We have here the honour Christ not assumed, but asserted, to himself, in the account he gave of his mission and his errand into the world. Probably this discourse was not at the same time with that before (for them he departed , John 12:36), but some time after, when he made another public appearance; and, as this evangelist records it, it was Christ’s farewell sermon to the Jews, and his last pub…
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