John 9:5

“As long as I am in the world, etc.] Which had been now two or three and thirty years; but was not to be much longer. I am the light of the world; (see Gill on “<430812>John 8:12”). Though doubtless he said this with some view to the cure he was about to perform, it being agreeable to his character and work, while he was in the world.”

“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 (Joh 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].”

“As long as I am in the world ... - As the sun is the natural light of the world, even while it sinks away to the west, so am I, although my days are drawing to a close, the light of the spiritual world. What a sublime description is this! Jesus occupied the same place, filled the same space, shed his beams as far, in the moral world, as the sun does on natural objects; and as all is dark when that sun sinks to the west, so when he withdraws from the souls of men all is midnight and gloom. When we look on the sun in the firmament or in the west, let us remember that such is the great Sun of Righteousness in regard to our souls; that his shining is as necessary, and his beams as mild and…”

“I am the light of the world - I teach men inwardly by my Spirit, and outwardly by my preaching, what is the will of God; and I show them, by my example, how they must do it. John 9:6”

“9:5 I am the light of the world: See study note on 8:12.”

“long: Joh 1:4-9, Joh 3:19-21, Joh 8:12, Joh 12:35, Joh 12:36, Joh 12:46; Isa 42:6, Isa 42:7, Isa 49:6, Isa 60:1-3; Mal 4:2; Mat 4:16; Luk 2:32; Act 13:47, Act 26:18, Act 26:23; Eph 5:14; Rev 21:23 I am: Our Lord here claims one of the titles given by the Jews to the Divine Being. So in Bammidbar Rabba, 15, fol. 229.1, "The Israelites said to God, O Lord of the universe, thou commandest us to light lamps to thee, yet thou art the light of the world." It was also a title of the Messiah (see Isa 49:6; Isa 60:1); and in a remarkable passage of Yalkut Rubeni, fol. 6, it is said on Gen 1:4, "From this we learn that the holy and blessed God saw the light of the Messiah, and his works, before the…”