Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world—not as if He would cease, after that, to be so; but that He must make full proof of His fidelity while His earthly career lasted by displaying His glory. "As before the raising of Lazarus (John 11:25), He announces Himself as the Resurrection and the Life, so now He sets Himself forth as the source of the archetypal spiritual light, of which the natural, now about to be conferred, is only a derivation and symbol" [ALFORD].
THE OPENING OF THE EYES OF ONE BORN BLIND, AND WHAT FOLLOWED ON IT. (John 9:1-41)
as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth—and who "sat begging" (John 9:8).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 9:5:
Matthew 5:14
John 1:9
John 9:39-41
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