The Bible › Webster Bible › John 9
John 9:4
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 · Webster Bible
John 9:4 in other translations
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
1 And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man who was blind from [his] birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7 And said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Read John 9 in the app The whole chapter