King James Version
John 9:4 in the King James Version says “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” — study this verse from John chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
John 9:4 · KJV
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, anointed: or, spread the clay upon the eyes of the blind man
KJV Study — Public Domain
“must”
G1163also deon deh-on'; neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding)
“work”
G2038to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc
“of him that sent”
G3992to dispatch (from the subjective view or point of departure, whereas ???? (as a stronger form of ????) refers rather to the objective point or <i>term
“while”
G2193a conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until (of time and place)
“day”
G2250day, i.e., (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the jews as inclusive of
“cometh”
G2064to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“work”
G2038to toil (as a task, occupation, etc.), (by implication) effect, be engaged in or with, etc
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