[a]I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is [b]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.

[c]As soon as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind with the clay,

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Footnotes

  1. John 9:4 The works of Christ are as it were a light, which lighten the darkness of the world.
  2. 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.
  3. John 9:6 Christ healing the man born blind, by taking the sign of clay, and afterward the sign of the fountain of Siloam (which signifieth Sent) showeth that as he at the beginning made man, so doth he again restore both his body and soul: and yet so, that he himself cometh first of his own accord to heal us.

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